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Nativization in Brunei English: Deviation vs. Standard.

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Svalberg, Agneta M. -L. – World Englishes, 1998

Suggests that the variety of English spoken in Brunei (BNE), sometimes called nonstandard, is still at an early stage of development and there is little awareness among its speakers of some differences from standard English (STE). Results of a grammaticality judgment test administered to 106 university students, designed to find nonstandard verb…

Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English