A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba

This paper highlights the various studies which have been carried out to determine the rules which govern the elision of one of the vowels in a verb-noun concatenation where the verb is vowel-final and the noun vowel-initial. It proposes that there are basically three phonological rules which come i...

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Main Author: B. Rotimi Badejo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 1986-04-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://ojs.test.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107493
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