Cross Consonantal Vowel Assimilation in Yoruba: A Review

Akinbiyi Akinlabi

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2932-8_1

Cross Consonantal Vowel Assimilation in Yoruba: A Review

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This chapter examines both complete and partial vowel-vowel assimilation across consonants in Yoruba (Niger-Congo). The study looks at crossconsonantal spreading in vowel harmony, in the prefix [o - ní] and suffix [ni], in DORSAL and LABIAL-DORSAL consonants, in ideophones, and in loanwords. We propose that spreading through CORONAL [n/l] on the one hand, and through [r] on the other, are cases of complete VOCALIC assimilation. In all other cross-consonantal spreading, we propose that they can be captured as “single feature spread”.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Current Issues in Descriptive Linguistics and Digital Humanities
Subtitle of host publication	A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Eno-Abasi Essien Urua
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	3-19
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811929328
ISBN (Print)	9789811929311
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2932-8_1
State	Published - Jan 1 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Assimilation
Coronal sonorant
Feature geometry
Optimality theory Yoruba

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