Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ577569
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Publication Date: 1998
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Nativization in Brunei English: Deviation vs. Standard.
Svalberg, Agneta M. -L.
World Englishes, v17 n3 p325-44 Nov 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 forms, are discussed in this context. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Language Role, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Standard Spoken Usage, Verbs
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Brunei
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