Kolawole Adeniyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 8960771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kolawole Adeniyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kolawole |
| FAMILY NAME | Adeniyi |
| SIGNATURE | ADENIYI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ekiti State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6409-9690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ewúro "Bitter leaf"
This work studied the linguistic situation between Ife and Modakeke, two Yoruba communities experiencing incessant war spanning more than 100 years despite their close proximity to each other. It is reported that the two communities consciously deploy dialectal variations to maintain their differences. Segmental, tonal, and lexical variations between the speech forms of the two groups were identified and discussed. Specifically, the dialectal var…
A Tonal Identification of Yoruba Dialects
This article studies variations in the realisation of contour tones in Oyo, Ibadan, Ife, Igbomina, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ilorin, and Onko dialects of Yoruba and reports that the dialects exploit different dimensions of contour tone realisation to distinguish themselves. Ife, Igbomina and Ijesa dialects reduce the frequency of contour tones via high tone lowering and contour levelling, whereas Ijebu dialect multiplies contours in several ways. For instanc…
Lexicalisation of tonal downstep in Yoruba
This work challenges the assumption that tonal downstep is a juncture feature in Yoruba by providing data, both from everyday conversation and from classical Yoruba dictionaries, which prove that the phenomenon is part of the lexical composition of many Yoruba words. It is further argued that the derivational path of some of the words having downstep has already been lost. It is also reported that the Assimilated Low Tone phenomenon, which is an …
Consonant Voicing, Tonal Morphemes, and Downstep in Gwari
This paper studies the downstep phenomenon in Gwari, a West Benue-Congo language spoken in Nigeria and reports that high and mid tones are subject to downstepping in the language. The phenomenon is however blocked in syllables whose onsets contain voiceless obstruents. It is also reported that in the associative construction, the language marks the genitive relation with a floating high tonal morpheme (H-tomorph) that has the capability to dock d…
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Consonant Voicing, Tonal Morphemes, and Downstep in Gwari
This paper studies the downstep phenomenon in Gwari, a West Benue-Congo language spoken in Nigeria and reports that high and mid tones are subject to downstepping in the language. The phenomenon is however blocked in syllables whose onsets contain voiceless obstruents. It is also reported that in the associative construction, the language marks the genitive relation with a floating high tonal morpheme (H-tomorph) that has the capability to dock d…
Lexicalisation of tonal downstep in Yoruba
This work challenges the assumption that tonal downstep is a juncture feature in Yoruba by providing data, both from everyday conversation and from classical Yoruba dictionaries, which prove that the phenomenon is part of the lexical composition of many Yoruba words. It is further argued that the derivational path of some of the words having downstep has already been lost. It is also reported that the Assimilated Low Tone phenomenon, which is an …
A Tonal Identification of Yoruba Dialects
This article studies variations in the realisation of contour tones in Oyo, Ibadan, Ife, Igbomina, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ilorin, and Onko dialects of Yoruba and reports that the dialects exploit different dimensions of contour tone realisation to distinguish themselves. Ife, Igbomina and Ijesa dialects reduce the frequency of contour tones via high tone lowering and contour levelling, whereas Ijebu dialect multiplies contours in several ways. For instanc…
Ewúro "Bitter leaf"
This work studied the linguistic situation between Ife and Modakeke, two Yoruba communities experiencing incessant war spanning more than 100 years despite their close proximity to each other. It is reported that the two communities consciously deploy dialectal variations to maintain their differences. Segmental, tonal, and lexical variations between the speech forms of the two groups were identified and discussed. Specifically, the dialectal var…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Yoruba (3 works) · History (2 works) · Phenomenon (2 works) · Biology (1 work) · Botany (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)