PRIMARY STRESS DISPLACEMENT: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE APPLICATION OF ENGLISH MORPHOPHONOLOGICAL RULES BY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH IN BINGHAM UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This paper investigates the application of English morphophonological rules by the students of English in Bingham university in Nigeria. using an experimental research design, copies of a questionnaire were administered to twenty available students of the department across all levels, before and after pedagogic exposure to some morphophonological rules. the analysis of the data shows that students of English in Bingham, and by extension E.S.L users of the language, can improve their primary stress placement, and consequently improve their English communication, if they are properly taught morphophonological stress rules.