O. P. Akamo

The Phonotactic Impact of Heterosyllabic Consonants and English Silent Letters in L2 Context

For many people learning English as a second language, the language’s irregular spelling system poses real challenges, unlike Yorùbá, Hausa, or Igbo, where words sound the way, they are written. The mismatch between letters and sounds often leads to tricky pronunciation slips. Silent letters, like the soft “th” in asth...