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- W807027763 abstract "The aim of this investigation was to measure theintelligibility of educated Nigerian speakers of English toBritish listeners and to analyse the main causes of intelligibilityfailure. The test material consisted of the following:I- Connected Speech, II - Reading Passage, III -Phonemes, IVA - Stress, IVB - Intonation. The speech of 24Nigerian first-year university students - 12 Yoruba and 12Hausa speakers - was recorded. An RP speaker was also recorded.The-recordings were played to 240 British listeners, eachNigerian speaker being assessed by 10 British listeners.A scoring system was devised for the tests ofConnected Speech. The intelligibility scores ranged from92.7% to 29.9%, with a mean score of 64.4%. The RP speaker'sscore (based on all 240 listeners) was 99.4%. Listeners'impressionistic judgements of the speakers' intelligibilitycorrelated closely with the scores obtained on Test I. Themost intelligible Nigerian speaker was 93% as efficient asthe RP speaker, the mean Nigerian speaker was 65% as efficient,and the least intelligible Nigerian speaker 30% as efficientas the RP speaker.Test I- Connected Speech - was taken as the criterionof fundamental importance in assessing intelligibility.The other tests were regarded as subsidiary. - It was foundthat Connected Speech was significantly correlated with Readingand Stress, but not with the tests of Phonemes andIntonation. Partial correlation analyses showed that stressis the major component of all aspects of intelligibility.The errors leading to intelligibility failure werecategorised into four groupings: - rhythmic/stress, segmental,phonotactic, lexical/syntactic. Rhythmic/stress errors(38.2% for all speakers) were the major cause of intelligibilityfailure. This was closely followed by segmental errors (33.0%).Phonotactic errors (20.00) were of lesser importance, whilelexical/syntactic errors (8.8%) were of minor importance.Details of the actual phonetic errors are summarised inChapters 11-13. The study concludes with some observationson the testing and teaching of oral English in the light ofthese findings." @default.
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- W807027763 title "The intelligibility of Nigerian English." @default.
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