
Dialect Diversity in Eve and Its Impact on the Lexical Sets: Nurse, Dress and Letter
This paper investigates how dialectal variation in Eʋe—specifically the Eʋeme and Aŋlɔ varieties—shapes the pronunciation of three English lexical sets: NURSE, DRESS, and lettER. Using a variationist framework, the study analyses vowel quality, duration, and pitch from controlled word-list readings (fifteen items per lexical set) produced by Eʋe-speaking English users…





