In relation to this, the focus group discussions reveal that the various pronunciation choices that are available to speakers (as a result of phonological variation) create the possibility of levels of proficiency for the speakers. The findings indicate that free variation happens because the speakers want to create a code that is distinctive to them and as divergent from Ghanaian English (and Town Pidgin) as possible and, by extension, make GSP nearly unintelligible to the non-speaker. The data for the study was collected by recording group conversations, conducting individual interviews and two focus group discussions. This study describes phonological processes (vowel change, deletion and stress/tone variation) which are employed by the speakers of Ghanaian Student Pidgin (GSP)-a Ghanaian youth language-to create variable pronunciations existing in free variation with the original pronunciations and explores the implications of the variation for the GSP speech community.
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