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 This study examined the challenges and prospects of use Yoruba Language for legislative business in Lagos State House Assembly. The Assembly adopted language its deliberation every Thursday 2007. made an in-depth interview guide to elicit responses from research subjects, who were drawn among Legislative officers, aides, assistants, totaling ten. In addition, we consulted archiva...

Abstract This article provides a description and an Optimality Theory (OT) analysis of contact-induced changes variation in contemporary Yoruba syllable structure. The claims that major diachronic change has occurred the structure phonology due to its continued contact with English, resulting invention, preservation, hypercorrection clusters codas. I characterize this terms OT constraint re-ran...