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    Analysing Yoruba Bare Nouns as DP
    (Lagos Notes and Records, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 2009-12-15) Ajíbóyè, O
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    APETUNPE ORO-ORUKO AJEMOSOYE ALAINIGBEDEKE LEDE YORUBA
    (Akungba Journal of Linguistics and Literatures, 2010-02-01) Ajíbóyè, O
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    Articulatory Mapping of Yoruba Vowels:
    (2013) Allen, B.; Pulleyblank, D.; Ajíbóyè, O
    This paper examines the articulation of harmonically distinct classes of vowels in Standard Yoruba. There has been considerable disagreement as to whether the distinction between (e.o] and [[E :)) is one of vowel height or tongue- root advancement/ retraction feature. This paper reports on an ultrasound investigation of Yoruba vowels. Results are consistent with harmonic classes distinguished by a tongue-rood advancement /retraction feature, not by vowel height. -We also investigate the relation between articulations of the tongue root and its neutral position between utterances, the Inter speech posture (lSP). We find more variability in ISP-to-articulation mapping than previous studies, but our results arc still partially compatible with a postulated correlation between phonologically "active'' feature values and articulatory d displacement from ISP. Overall, our results support an analysis of Yoruba vowels in terms of a tongue-root feature, and provide insight into the mapping between phonetics and phonology.
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    Assimilation, Deletion and Vowel Harmony in Moba, Igbomina, Owe and Akure: Dialects of Yoruba
    (Journal of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 2013-01-03) Ajíbóyè, O
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    A Comparative Study of Edo and Yoruba Vowels
    (Current Research on African Languages and Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 2001-03-03) Ajíbóyè, O
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    A Comparative Study of Vowel Assimilation in Moba and Standard Yoruba
    (Alore: Ilorin Journal of Humanities, 1999-10-01) Ajíbóyè, O
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    A Comparative Study of Yes-no Questions in Awori, Igbomina, Ikale, Moba and Owe dialects of Yoruba
    (Readings in African Dialectology and Applied Linguistics, 2013-07-03) Ajíbóyè, O
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    A Cross-Dialectal Study of the Syllabic Nasal in Yoruba
    (California State University, Fresno, California, 2001-11-07) Ajíbóyè, O
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    Disambiguating Yoruba tones: At the interface between syntax, morphology, phonology and phonetics
    (2011-05-28) Ajíbóyè, O
    This paper considers a particular type of tonal behavior in Yoruba with the goal of testing whether syntactic and phonological domains converge or diverge. We consider two types of syntactically conditioned phonological rules: (i) the appearance of phonological elements not present lexically (epenthesis/insertion). (ii) the loss of phonological elements (deletion). These types of rules are often tightly interconnected as the (apparent) loss of one element may involve the appearance of some other element. The cases we consider here involve two Yoruba tone rules whose surface effect is to change a lexically specified tone (or tone sequence). One of the rules is syntactically conditioned in that it applies across a phrasal boundary; the other rule is morphologically conditioned in that it applies within the word/Xo domain. The two tone rules are conditioned by two distinct domains. namely syntax (the phrasal domain) versus morphology (the word-level domain). We will demonstrate that a consideration of two independent well-formedness conditions-syntactic inclusiveness and phonological structure preservation-leads us to entertain the possibility that the outputs of tone rules will be distinct from one another according to whether they apply across a phrasal domain (i.e. are syntactically conditioned) or whether they apply within a word (i.e. are morphologically conditioned).
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    Disambiguating Yoruba´ tones: At the interface between syntax, morphology, phonology and phonetics
    (Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, 2011-08-10) Ajíbóyè, O
    This paper considers a particular type of tonal behavior in Yoru` ba´ with the goal of testing whether syntactic and phonological domains converge or diverge.We consider two types of syntactically conditioned phonological rules: (i) the appearance of phonological elements not present lexically (epenthesis/insertion), (ii) the loss of phonological elements (deletion). These types of rules are often tightly interconnected as the (apparent) loss of one element may involve the appearance of some other element. The cases we consider here involve two Yoru` ba´ tone rules whose surface effect is to change a lexically specified tone (or tone sequence). One of the rules is syntactically conditioned in that it applies across a phrasal boundary; the other rule is morphologically conditioned in that it applies within the word/X0 domain. The two tone rules are conditioned by two distinct domains, namely syntax (the phrasal domain) versus morphology (the word-level domain). We will demonstrate that a consideration of two independent well-formedness conditions—syntactic inclusiveness and phonological structure preservation—leads us to entertain the possibility that the outputs of tone rules will be distinct from one another according to whether they apply across a phrasal domain (i.e. are syntactically conditioned) or whether they apply within a word (i.e. are morphologically conditioned).
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    History of Linguistics
    (Department of Linguistics, University of Ilorin, 1999-02-03) Ajíbóyè, O
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    ISE FAWELI OLOHUN AARIN INU APOLA ONIBAATAN YORUBA: ERI LATI NINU AWON EDE MIIRAN
    (Journal of Yoruba Association of Nigeria, 2008-01-01) Ajíbóyè, O
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    MID-TONED AND HIGH-TONED ELEMENTS IN YORUBA
    (Studies in African Linguistics, 2007-02-11) Ajíbóyè, O
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    A morpho-syntactic account of ni in Mọ̀bà Yorùbá
    (Niger-Congo Syntax and Semantics, University of Ghana, Legon, Bulletin of the Institute of African Studies (Legon), 2011-01-04) Ajíbóyè, O
    Mọ̀bà, a dialect of Yorùbá, shows a lot of similarities with Standard Yorùbá. The two speech forms behave alike with respect to most phonological rules (Bámisilẹ̀ 1986, Ajíbóyè 1991). Two examples suffice to illustrate this. One, in both Standard Yorùbá and Mọ̀bà, L tone monosyllabic verbs surface with M before an object NP (Bámigbóṣé 1967: 23, Awóbùlúyì 1978: 52, Bámisilẹ̀ 1986: 87). Two, just as it is difficult to predict which of two contiguous vowels across a morpheme/word boundary gets deleted in Standard Yorùbá, so it is in Mọ̀bà . Thus, Awóbùlúyì's (1988: 70) claim that most phonological rules are morphologically conditioned in Standard Yorùbá is also true of Mọ̀bà. All the works cited above focus on phonology. To the best knowledge of this researcher, no work on Mọ̀bà syntax has yet been undertaken. The present study looks at the syntax of the particle ni in Mọ̀bà. As a comparative study, it will clarify the relation between phonology and syntax on the one hand and more importantly, we believe it will throw light on the function, occurrence and the status of ni, a particle which has generated much debate among Yorùbá scholars. The literature on ni in Standard Yorùbá includes among others Bámigbóṣé (1967, 1972), Awóbùlúyì (1978b, 1987c, 1988), Owólabí (1987), Awóyalé (1985), Carstens (1986) and Yusuf (1989). Different positions have been taken by these scholars on the status of ni in Standard Yorùbá (see Awóyalé 1985: 75-85). In this paper, we look at the occurrence and function of ni in Mọ̀bà. It will be demonstrated that the range of contexts in which ni occurs in Mọ̀bà is different from Standard Yorùbá. Also, Mọ̀bà ni has context-sensitive allomorphs which are in complementary distribution with it. This differs from Standard Yorùbá, where ni is invariant.
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    THE MORPHOLOGY, SEMANTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF YORUBA NAMES
    (Alore: Ilorin Journal of Humanities, 2011-02-01) Ajíbóyè, O
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    The Morphology,Semantics And Sociolinguistics Of Yoruba Names.
    (2011) Ajíbóyè, O
    It is observed that all oruko 'attributive names', certain oruko abiso 'personal names' and alaje 'nicknames' can be easily identified along gender distinction in Yoruba (Ola-Orie 2002). In this paper, I show that the parameters for this identification are morphological semantic and sociolinguistic phenomena rather than a sole affair of semantics as widely acclaimed in the literature. I establish that names which contain baba 'father', akin 'valour', ogun 'war',ja 'fight',fe 'like/love' are exclusively masculine and therefore given to male children whereas names that contain iya/yeye 'mother', ewa 'beauty' the verbs ke 'adorn' and be 'beg' are almost always feminine and given to female children. I claim that these morphological and semantic properties are- due to the influence of societal norms on linguistics: it is ,shown that while Yoruba assign physical activities such as waging war, wrestling and hunting to male members of the society; activities that involve caring, adoration and aesthetics are exclusively for females.
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    Ofin Alayemaye Laaarin Faweli Olohun Aarin Ati Iro Ohun Isale Ninu Apola Onibatan Lede Yoruba
    (University of Lagos, 2007) Ajíbóyè, O
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    Ofin Alayemaye Laarin Faweli Olohun Aarin Ati Iro Ohun Isale Ninu Apola Onibaatan Lede Yoruba
    (LAANGBASA A Journal of Department of African and Asia Studies,. University of Lagos, 2007-01-13) Ajíbóyè, O
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    PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY STATE VERBS AND YORUBA BARE NOUNS
    (EDE: JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 2008-01-01) Ajíbóyè, O
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    Plural marking in Yorùbá and English and its pedagogical implications.
    (Revista de Lingüística / Journal of Linguistics, 2010-02-24) Ajíbóyè, O