TY  - JOUR
T1  - Errors of Segemental Phonemes in the Spoken English of Nigerian  Television Newscasters
AU - , S.A. Aladeyomi AU - , A.K. Adetunde 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SP  - 302
EP  - 306
PY  - 2007
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2007.302.306
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2007.302.306
KW  - Errors
KW  -segemental phonemes
KW  -spoken english
KW  -television newscasters
AB  - This study studies the errors related to segmental phonemes in the spoken English of television newscasters in Nigeria. It analyses the errors in terms of the newscasters` inadequate exposure to the rules of the English language. Sixty Nigerian television newscasters were selected from both the state and federal owned television stations and their newscasts were tape-recorded. The fact that oral English is now being examined in the senior secondary school, without the attendant necessity to find a local model to emulate, informs, the present study. The study submits that the newscasters commit errors such as substituting /s/ for /z/, /d/ for /t/, /ed/ for /id/, /e/ for / <IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image1.gif">/, /<IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image2.gif">/ for / <IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image3.gif">/, /<IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image4.gif">/for /<IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image5.gif">/, /<IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image4.gif">/for /<IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image2.gif">/, /<IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image5.gif">/ for/<IMG SRC="http://www.medwelljournals.com/fulltext/TSS/Image3.gif">/. These errors expose the inadequacies of the newscasters as they show a wide gap between Standard English and Nigerian English, a situation that makes it difficult to accept their performance as models.
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