Abstract:
This study has set to find out "an investigation on the level of phonological
interference in the speech of Hausa
-
English bilingual: A case study of
Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto." It was to find out the features that
distinguish Hausa accent from th
e Received Pronunciation. The Recorded
speech of ten selected native speakers of Hausa was used. Students who
were native speakers of Hausa were sampled. Phonological approach was
used using snowball sampling technique. It was discovered that
phonological
features of Hausa such as substitution, under
-
differentiation,
spelling pronunciation, epenthesis and simplification, of consonant cluster
were the common features found in the oral English of the samples. The
English of the samples has been affected by t
heir L1.
