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Item Deletion and elision in the spoken french of english-french bilinguals in the university of Ibadan, Nigeria(2020) Iyiola, A. D.Deletion, which involves loss of segment involving vowels and consonants, is a common phonological process in language. Existing studies have examined deletion in several languages and dialects with less attention paid to the spoken French of English-French Bilinguals in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. This article therefore examined deletion as a dominant feature in the spoken French of forty-four English-French Bilinguals in the University of Ibadan in Oyo State, South West of Nigeria with a view to establishing the dominance of deletion in the spoken French of the selected participants and how the English-French bilinguals approximate to the Standard French (SF). The data collection was through tape-recording of participants’ production of 30 sentences containing both French vowel and consonant sounds. The results revealed inappropriate deletion of vowel and consonant in the medial and final positions in their spoken French.Item Auto-segmental analysis of consonant deletion in thè spoken french of ijebu undergraduate french learners in selected universities in south sest of Nigeria(2015) Iyiola, A. D.In communication, each spoken word is created out of thè phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. Deletion, which involves loss of segment involving vowel and consonants, is a common phonological process in language. Existing studies have examined deletion in several languages and dialects with less attentionpaid to thè spoken French of Ijebu Undergraduates. This article, therefore, examined consonant deletion in thè spoken French of forty-four Ijebu Undergraduate French Learners (IUFLs) in Selected Universities in South West of Nigeria, with a view to establishing thè dominance of consonant deletion in thè spoken French of IUFLs. The data collection was through tape-recording of participants' production of 30 sentences containing both French vowel and consonant sounds, while Goldsmith's Auto-segmental theory of phonology (1990) was used to analyse instances of consonant deletion by thè IUFLs. The results revealed inappropriate consonant deletion in thè initial, mediai and final positions in thè French speech communication of IUFLs.