Akinbiyi Akinlabi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Akinbiyi Akinlabi plays a role.

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Akinlabi, Akinbiyi and Mark Liberman 2000 The tonal phonology of Yoruba clitics Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Gerlach, Birgit and Janet Grijzenhout (eds.), pp. 31–62 | Article
This paper examines the tonal behavior of six types of enclitics in Standard Yoruba, and shows that in all six cases, a constraint applies preventing the last syllable of the host and the adjacent clitic syllable from having the same (High or Low) tone. There are no other host + clitic cases in… read more