Publications and presentations


PUBLISHED PAPERS

Akinbo, Samuel. (2021). Featural affixation and sound symbolism in Fungwa. Phonology 38, 537–569.

Akinbo, Samuel (2021). The Language of Gángan, A Yorùbá Talking Drum. Frontiers in Communication, 180.

Angsongna, Alexander & Akinbo, Samuel. (2020). Dàgáárè (Central). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-27.

Akinbo Samuel, Ozburn Avery, Angsongna, Alex., Schellenberg, Murray, & Pulleyblank, Douglas. (2018). Velar tap in Dagaare. In ACAL 49, Michigan State University.

Akinbo, Samuel. (2019). Representation of Yorùbá Tones by a Talking Drum: An Acoustic Analysis. Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 5, 11-23.

Akinbo, Samuel. (2019). Minimality and Onset Conditions Interact with Vowel Harmony in Fungwa. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2018.

Akinbo, Samuel. (2018). Documentation of Cifungwa Folktales. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive, ELAR. URL: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI1035089 (accessed on [insert date here]).

Ozburn, Avery, Samuel Akinbo, Alexander Angsongna, Murray Schellenberg & Douglas Pulleyblank. (2019). Dagaare [a] Is Not Neutral To ATR Harmony. Canadian Acoustics, 46(4), 36-37.

Keough, Meagan, Avery Ozburn, Elise McClay, Michael Schwan, Murray Schellenberg, Samuel Akinbo & Bryan Gick. (2015). Acoustic and articulatory qualities of smiled speech. Canadian Acoustics, 43(3).

Lewis, Demola & Akinbo, Samuel. (2014). EEG cerebral localization of tone. Journal of West African Languages XLI, 2, 118.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

Akinbo, Samuel. (2022). Evaluative and Noun-class in Fungwa, Fieldwork Forum (FForum), UC Berkley .

Akinbo, Samuel. (2022). Perception of ATR in Dàgáárè, Annual Conference on African Linguistics 53, UC San Diego (Online)

Akinbo, Samuel. (2022). Non-Arbitrary Sound-Meaning Mapping in Language, PPFP Spring Research Symposium, the University of Minnesota (Online).

Akinbo, Samuel. (2021). Voicing Ìjálá: An acoustic analysis of vocal expression in Yorùbá oral poem, PALA Conference, the University of Nottingham (Online).

Akinbo, Samuel. (2021). Evaluative morphology in Fungwa, 51st Northwest Linguistics Conference, UBC Vancouver (Online).

Akinbo, Samuel. (2021). Linguistic Imitation of Super Mario Theme Songs by Yorùbá Gamers, Expression, Language, and Music at UConn (cancelled due to COVID–19).

Akinbo, Samuel. (2021). Featural affixation in Fungwa, 51st Annual Conference on African Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (cancelled due to COVID–19).

Akinbo, Samuel. (2019). An Onset Condition on Multiple Reduplication in Fungwa . UBC: CLA2019.

Akinbo, Samuel. (2019). The representation of Yorùbá tone by talking: An acoustic analysis. UBC: ACAL50.

Ozburn Avery, Samuel Akinbo, Angsongna, Alexander, Schellenberg, Murray & Pulleyblank, Douglas (2018). Dagaare [a] is not neutral to ATR harmony. 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)/the Acoustics Week in Canada, Victoria, BC.

Akinbo, Samuel. (2018). Backness Harmony in Fungwa. A talk at Annual Meeting of Phonology in UCSD

Akinbo, Samuel. (2018). Backness Harmony in Fungwa. Seminar talk, UBC-Linguistics Research Seminar & Colloquia

Ozburn Avery, Akinbo Samuel, Angsongna, Alex., Schellenberg, Murray, & Pulleyblank, Douglas. (2018). Velar tap in Dagaare. In ACAL 49, Michigan State University.

Akinbo, Samuel. (2017). Backness Harmony in Fungwa. Qualifyin Paper, University of British Columbia

Akinbo, Samuel. (2016). The syntax of na: Focus, relative, and associative constructions in Cifungwa. In ACAL47, UC Berkeley, CA.

Akinbo, Samuel. (2015). Labialization in Gitxsan. Poster, Ling 531/532 (Field Methods). Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Lewis, Ademola & Akinbo, Samuel. (2013). Cerebral Localization of Tone in Yorùbá. In WALC/NALL, University of Ibadan.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Akinbo, Samuel. (in prep). Reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin

Akinbo, Samuel. (under revision). An Onset Condition on Multiple Reduplication in Fungwa . UBC: CLA2019.


RELEVANT RESOURCES WORKED ON

Database on Fungwa data deposited at Endangered Language Archive: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI1035089 (2015-2018)

Database on Yorùbá phrases in talking drum performance (January-March 2018)

Corpora of Nigerian Languages https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/conila