尼日利亚英语二语使用者音节辅音发音差异的性别研究

The study investigated the role of gender in the mispronunciations of English words containing syllabic consonants among speakers of English as second language. The aim of the study is to examine the role of gender in the mispronunciation of syllabic consonants among Hausa speakers of English as a second language, and how such mispronunciation affects the intelligibility of their speech. The study employs Labov’s Variationist Theory and Clements’s Sonority Sequencing Principle and the framework. The study is a descriptive design that focuses on observing and recording phonological behaviour an