Pidgin, on the other hand, is a technical term in linguistics that refers to a “contact” or “trade” language that emerged from the fusion of foreign (usually European) languages and indigenous (usually non-European) languages. Now, since even native English speakers routinely violate the rules of their own language, tolerable grammatical errors can’t be regarded as “broken English.” It should be noted, though, that uneducated or barely educated people in English-as-a-second-language linguistic environments can- and indeed do- speak or write broken English, while people who are well-schooled in English in English-as-a-foreign-language environments don’t speak or write broken English. Chinese and Japanese people) rather than people for whom it is a second language (e.g. “I will see you tomorrow” could become “Me is come see you tomorrow.” And so on.Īs it should be obvious by now, the people who are apt to speak or write broken English in the classical conception of the term are often people for whom English is a foreign language (e.g. Two other popular names for broken English are “halting English” and “faltering English.” For instance, the sentence, “I want to see you” may be rendered as “me like see you” in broken English. And my short answer is no, although there are occasional overlaps between Nigerian Pidgin English and Nigerian English.īut, first, what is “broken English”? Well, it is a somewhat pejorative label used by native speakers of English to describe the often hysterical violations of the basic rules of Standard English syntax by non-native speakers of the language. Is Nigerian English the same as (Nigerian) Pidgin English or, for that matter, “broken English”? I have been asked this question many times. What follows is a article I wrote on the difference between Pidgin English, broken English and Nigerian English. But several newspaper commentaries have been using the terms “Pidgin English” and “Broken English” interchangeably. It will most likely also elevate the status of the language. Self-training technique improves both Pidgin text fluency and relevance.The launch of BBC Pidgin has brought Nigerian Pidgin English to the limelight. That, though still far from being practically usable, the pivoting + The human evaluation performed on the generated Pidgin texts shows Translation and self-training to establish the Pidgin-to-English cross-lingualĪlignment. Generation system, before employing techniques in unsupervised neural machine Hope to build a system that can automatically generate Pidgin Englishĭescriptions from structured data. Monolingual Pidgin English text and parallel English data-to-text corpus, we %As a proof of concept, we explore the proposed techniques in theĪrea of data-to-text generation. Gap between Pidgin English and English in the context of natural language In this work, we develop techniques targeted at bridging the Machine translation systems and relevant NLP datasets for pidgin English are West Africa, consisting of at least 75 million speakers.
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Authors: Ernie Chang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Xiaoyu Shen, Vera Demberg Download PDF Abstract: West African Pidgin English is a language that is significantly spoken in
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