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Imagint Excusations: Missionary English in the Nineteenth Century Cape Colony, South Africa.

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Mesthrie, Rajend – World Englishes, 1996

Presents a case study of the English of early missionaries operating in South Africa. The study characterizes the interlanguages of some German and Dutch missionaries, points out the disparity between the usage patterns found in missionary letters and modern linguists' characterizations of their abilities, and suggests missionary English as an…

Descriptors: Case Studies, Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries

Markedness and Fossilization in the Interlanguage Phonology of Brunei English.

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Mossop, Jonathan W. – World Englishes, 1996

Examines the interlanguage (IL) phonology of Malay-speaking Brunein college students by focusing on final and initial consonant clusters and the voicing contrast. The study found no significant difference between the IL phonology of the less and more proficient students when lexical roots were examined, suggesting that the IL phonology has…

Descriptors: College Students, Discussion Groups, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)