The combinatorial interaction of suprasegmental and contextually induced segmental variations has been shown to produce independent coarticulatory effects. This study extended the locus equation (LE) methodology for the first time to a tonal language, Yoruba, in order to document how variations in tone might interact with CV coarticulation and to understand the patterning of its 4 voiced stops....

Many scholars before this time have written about the Ogboni institution in Yoruba land of southwest Nigeria. Instances are William Bascom (1944); Forde (1951); Peter Morton-Williams (1960); J.R.O. Ojo (1972–73); Robert Smith (1976); L.E. Roache (1971); R. Hallgren (1988). However, conspicuously missing in their analyses is the overriding influence and place that the Ogboni institution wields i...

BACKGROUND Palmaris longus (PL) has received a growing interest for its role in constructive surgery. Since the agenesis of PL shows a strong racial variation, it is conceivable that its prevalence on the Yoruba ethnic population in Nigeria will further confirm this phenomenon. METHODS A total of 600 subjects comprising 335 males and 265 females aged 8-60 years were used to assess the prevale...

OBJECTIVES To describe the incidence of dementia in a representative sample of elderly Yoruba Nigerians and provide information about the risk factors. DESIGN In-home face-to-face assessments conducted on a community cohort selected using multistage clustered sampling of households, with baseline between November 2003 and August 2004 (n=2,149) and follow-up approximately 39 months later (n=1,...

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...

INTRODUCTION This study was conducted to compare the rugae patterns between two major ethnic groups in Nigeria to establish any peculiarities. This will serve as basis for population identification especially in mass disasters involving individuals of different races or ethnicities. METHODS One hundred consenting participants, 50 of south-western Yoruba ethnicity and 50 of south-eastern Igbo ...