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    COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF WARRI AND IKOM VARIETIES OF THE NIGERIAN PIDGIN
    (DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, FACULTY OF ARTS, NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI, 2018-10-23) Orisa, ruth
    This study compared the phonological varieties of Ikom and Warri varieties of the Nigerian Pidgin. The historical evidence of the emergence of Nigerian Pidgin in Calabar and the seeming creolisation process NP has undergone in the Warri variant prompted the need to carry out this research. The theoretical framework adopted for this work is the theory of mass comparison, data were elicited using checklist, organized group discussions and recorded speech of selected members of Warri and Ikom speech communities. The software (sound level meter) was used to get the intonation of speakers. The descriptive method was used for data analysis. A total of 30 sounds were established in both varieties of the NP; twenty three (23) consonants and seven vowels (7). It was discovered that users of both variants speak the same language in unique ways through the use of words with socially invented meaning and also through deletion, assimilation and insertion. Based on the findings, the study concluded that differences in tone and intonation assigned to words during utterances results to the unique ways language is used in both variants. In addition, phonological processes, such as free variation, are attestable only in the Warri variant, while de-voicing is at testable only in the Ikom variant. The study concluded that there are differences and similarities in both varieties of the Nigerian Pidgin. The work contributes to knowledge by listing the differences and similarities that exist in both variants amongst other things, it is recommended that greater efforts be made on a generally agreed orthography for the language based on how the language is spoken and not the way it is influenced by its superstrate source language (the English Language