Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52601#.VJyu9cCAM4 Author(s) Ojo George Adekunle Affiliation(s) Department of English and Literary Studies, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria . ABSTRACT This paper discusses deviant realization of borrowed phonemes from English into Yorùbá. It is not gainsaying that when a foreign phoneme enters into the syllable structure of English it changes its tongue position both horizontally and vertically. The reason for this change is not far-fetched. Since the majority of the foreign phonemes are absent in native languages, they tend to be substituted with the closest phonemes in the recipient language. This paper has been ...
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