An alignment-based account of vowel harmony in Ife Yoruba

Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie

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Most recent research on Yoruba vowel harmony has focused on Standard Yoruba (Benue-Congo/Nigeria). This inquiry is extended to consider Ife a central Yoruba dialect spoken in Ile-Ife Nigeria. Low and mid vowels in Ife exhibit the same harmonic patterns attested in Standard Yoruba. However, high vowels display harmonic differences in these two dialects. I show that while the analysis of these divergences is straightforward in Pulleyblank's (1996) framework, it is problematic for Bakovic's (2000) analysis.

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