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- ItemAn Optimality Analysis of Hausa Loanwords in Gwari Language: A Phono-Sociolinguistic Approach(Department of European Languages, Federal University, Birnin-Kebbi, 2022) Balogun, Nasrudeen Akanbi; Oloso, Yeseera OmonikeContact between languages often yields a different number of outcomes. The commonest of such outcomes is lexical borrowing - a language-universal phenomenon. This work examines how contact between speakers of the Hausa Language and the Gwari language has resulted into the incorporation of Hausa words into the Gwari lexicon. Gwari, a minority language of Northen Nigeria is a Nupoid language while Hausa is a Chadic language. As borrowing could be bi-directional, this paper seeks to look at borrowing of Hausa loan words into Gwari. The foci of this paper is twofold. One is to examine Hausa loanwords into the Gwari Language while the other is to analyse these borrowing using the framework provided by the Optimality Theory (OT). The aim is to show borrowing as one of the mechanisms that Gwari language
- ItemTone Variation in Ekiti: A Case Study of Opin Variety(2016) Balogun, Nasrudeen Akanbi
- ItemTONE BEHAVIOUR IN YORÙBÁ VOWEL COALESCENCE: AN AUTOSEGMENTAL APPROACH(Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages University of Ilorin Ilorin, 2025) Ridwan Akinkunmi RABIU; Samson Adekunle TELLA; Nafisat Bolanle AIYELABEGAN
- ItemA Critical Communication Analysis of Nominal Homo-Tonal Homonyms in Yoruba Language: A Pedagogical Approach(International Journal of Literature Language and Linguistics, 2025-02-12) RABIU, Ridwan Akinkunmi; ABIOLA Olutope Lawrence; AIYELABEGAN Nafisat BolanleThe main thrust of this work is to examine and classify nominal homo-tonal homonyms in Yoruba language. This paper investigates the role of homo-tonal homonyms in the teaching and learning of core linguistics areas in Yoruba language, most especially for second language learners. The theory adopted for this research is the usage theory championed by Wittgenstein (1953). Data needed for this research were gathered from both formal and informal sources, which include direct observation involving different classes of language users and appraisal of existing literature on homonyms. Through this work, it was observed that homo-tonal nominal homonyms could be used for the teaching and learning of different aspects of linguistics to facilitate effective communication. In addition, it was also discovered that intuitive knowledge, mutual contextual belief and context of situation and culture can help disambiguate homo-tonal homonyms derived from lexical ambiguity in the language and thus enhance effective communication. Furthermore, it was discovered that there are two types of homonyms in the Yoruba language; these are hetero-tonal homonyms and homo-tonal homonyms. In conclusion, research into lexical relations such as homo-tonal homonyms will help to preserve the language for posterity.
- ItemStandard Yorùbá Morphological Patterns as Variation Markers of the Nigerian Pidgin English(Yoruba: Journal of the Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria Onibọnoje Press,, 2022) Oloso Yeseera O; Tella Samson AdekunleThe Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) is a contact language that has the English Language as its superstrate and Nigerian Languages as its substrates. With the former contributing the bulk of its lexicon, this paper seeks to show the influence that the grammar of Nigerian languages, in this case, the Yorùbá Language, has on the structure of the NPE to the extent that the meaning of Yorùbá words have a greater reflection on the compounding patterns of the NPE than that of the English Language. The grammatical influence of the Yorùbá Language on the NPE equally makes it possible for a morphological pattern such as reduplication that is non-existent in the English Language but which exits in the Yorùbá Language, to feature prominently in the grammar of the NPE. Being a descriptive work, this paper seeks to shed light on the points of convergence between the operations of these morphological patterns in the NPE and the Yorùbá Language and the points of divergence between them and the English Language. The paper concludes that the similarity of grammatical structures of the NPE and the Yorùbá Language contributes to its easy acquisition by Yorùbá people in particular and Nigerians in general, when compared with their acquisition of the English Language.