Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English

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Feminine-presenting male speakers in Nigeria, referred to as crossdressers, strategically use rhoticity (pronouncing non-prevocalic /r/) to index American-ness and cosmopolitanism, serving as a form of 'indexical inoculation' against social vilification.

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