ABSTRACT

This research is a tentative sociolinguistic study of language variation in the English spoken in Ghana. The purpose is to identify consonantal variations in the realization of the affricates and the fricatives that contribute to the unique pronunciations Ghanaians exhibit and describe them. Thus, the study identifies and describes the alternative pronunciations of the affricates and the fricatives by some Ghanaian students and teachers at the primary, Junior and Senior High Schools which are very pivotal in the study of the English language in Ghana, using Wells‟ (1982) Synchronic Analysis Approach which examines existing accents as they are.

These alternative realizations by the students at each level are then compared to find out whether the individual‟s educational level is responsible for these variations and for that matter the selection of a particular variant.

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