YORUBA SALUTATIONS

Ere Ibeji: Yoruba Twin Worship

Yoruba Vowel Elision and Compounding

Psychiatric Disorder among the Yoruba

The Cornell University Programme in Social Psychiatry is undertaking an investig^ among the Yoruba, a tribe numbering five million and inhabiting Western Nigeria. "} , will be documented in two volumes, of which this first confines itself mainly to descritf" the purposes and methods of the project. Among the authors is Dr. T. Adeoye Larn K Professor of Psychiatry, University College, Ibadan, wh...

How I See the Yoruba See Themselves

The tonal phonology of Yoruba clitics

This paper examines the tonal behavior of six types of enclitics in Standard Yoruba, and shows that in all six cases, a constraint applies preventing the last syllable of the host and the adjacent clitic syllable from having the same (High or Low) tone. There are no other host+clitic cases in Yoruba for which such a constraint would be relevant. Potential violations of the constraint are avoide...