This production study investigates the correlates of voicing in initial /b, k, , b, kp/ stops in Yoruba. We found “voiceless” /kp/ to be “partially voiced”. It has prevoicing, but at the same time it behaves like a typical voiceless stop in raising the f0 of the following vowel, and in having the tendency to decrease surrounding vowel durations. /kp/ and /b/ are furthermore distinguishe...

Ninety-seven Nigerian children under 5 years of age had typhoid or paratyphoid fever proved by blood culture. The presented with fever, anaemia, gastrointestinal or neurological disturbances, and typhoid and paratyphoid appeared clinically indistinguishible. In this holoendemic malarial area, malaria was the most important differential diagnosis, and may have contributed to the concomitant anae...

1 Introduction The analysis of Yoruba vowels has been the focus of several papers and has been a topic in numerous others. But while this body of work has led to a clear description of a wide variety of phenomena, it has also raised a number of problems of both analytic and theoretical interest. The core issue to be addressed here arises out of such work. Various patterns have been described th...

This study examine planning and integration of ICT on teacher’s professional development among yoruba migrated indigene Lagos State in Diaspora. adopted a descriptive correlational research design. A simple purposive random sampling techniques was to select the sample for this study. Data collected through self-designed questionnaire titled” Planning Integration Teachers Education Professional ...

to see an international fund established to subsidize drug purchases and delivery systems in the poorest countries. In Norway this month (April) about 50 experts from around the world are meeting at a workshop organized by WHO and the WTO to discuss differential pricing as a means to ensure that the poor have access to essential drugs without undermining the international patents system — a sys...

BACKGROUND Psychometric evidence is necessary to establish scientific integrity and clinical usefulness of translations and cultural adaptations of the Stroke-Specific Quality of Life (SS-QoL) scale. However, the limited evidence on psychometrics of Yoruba version of SS-QoL 2.0 (SS-QoL(Y)) is a significant shortcoming. This study assessed the test-retest reliability, internal consistency, conve...