Akinbiyi Akinlabi
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D., Ibadan, 1985
Office: Room 202, 18 Seminary Place
732-932-8432
akinlabi@rci.rutgers.edu



Research Interests

  • Phonology --- tone, harmony, prosodic structure, underspecification theory.
  • Morphology--- phonology interaction, prosodic morphology
  • Optimality Theory
  • West African Linguistics, especially of Benue-Congo languages.
Akinbiyi Akinlabi



 Recent Work

  • Akinlabi, A. (in press) Yoruba Sound System. In N. S. Lawal and M. Sadiku (eds)Handbook of Yoruba Life and Culture.
  • Akinlabi, A. (2001). Yoruba. In Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, ed. by Jane Garry and Carl Rubino. New England Publishing Associates Pp. 836-841.
  • Akinlabi, A. and M. Liberman (2001). Tonal Complexes and Tonal Alignment. In Minjoo Kim and Uri Strauss (eds) Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, 31, 1-20. Amherst, Mass: GLSA.
  • Akinlabi, Akinbiyi & Ngessimo Mutaka (2001). Tone in the Infinitive in Kinande: an OT Analysis. In Ngessimo Mutaka & Beban S. Chumbow (eds) Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon. A fieldworker's tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell. In honor of Professor Larry M. Hyman. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, pp. 333-356.
  • Akinlabi, A. and M. Liberman (2000). The Tonal Phonology of Yoruba Clitics.. In B. Gerlach and J. Grijzenhout (eds.)Clitics in phonology, morphology and syntax Amsterdam: Benjamins. Pp. 31 - 62.
  • Akinlabi, A. and E. Urua (2000). Tone in Ibibio Verbal Reduplication. In Wolff, H.E. & O.D. Gensler (eds.)Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics. Koln: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, pp. 279-291.