Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo

@unilorin.edu.ng

Professor, Faculty of Arts
Head, Others
University of Ilorin

https://researchid.co/bolanle

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Language and Linguistics, Arts and Humanities

Scopus Publications

146

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021
Paulina Aravena-Bravo, Alejandrina Cristia, Rowena Garcia, Hiromasa Kotera, Ramona Kunene Nicolas, Ronel Laranjo, Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Titia Benders, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan,et al.
Informa UK Limited
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons learned. The school had a diverse organizer team, composed of 26 researchers (17 from under represented areas: Subsaharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Central and South America); and a diverse volunteer team, with a total of 95 volunteers from 35 different countries, nearly half from under represented areas. This helped world-wide Page 5 of 5 promotion of the school, leading to 958 registrations from 88 different countries, with 300 registrants (based in 63 countries, 80% from under represented areas) selected to participate in the synchronous aspects of the event. The school employed asynchronous (pre-recorded lectures, which were close-captioned) and synchronous elements (e.g., discussions to place the recorded lectures into

STUDYING the PHONOLOGY of the OLÙKÙMI, IGALA, OWÉ and YORÙBA LANGUAGES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS¹

Null arguments in the Yoruba child’s early speech
Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo
Australian International Academic Centre
This paper studied null arguments in the early speech of the Yoruba child. We examined whether null subjects are more prominent than null objects and whether the usage of null subjects decreases with language development in the early utterance of the Yoruba child. We also examined the relationship between argument ellipses and finiteness. Minimalist Programme was adopted as the theoretical framework because of its provision for minimality in the processes of language acquisition. The database was made up of longitudinal naturalistic speech output of three Yoruba-speaking children between 15and 36 months of age. We discovered the preponderance of null argument-NPs at the initial stage; subjects-NPs were easily omitted while object-NPs were hardly omitted; the three Yoruba-speaking children began to make use of overt argument-NPs from fifteen months and gradually, null argument-NPs gave way. We found no direct relationship between the acquisition of finiteness and the end of null arguments.

Early lexicon of the Yoruba child
Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo
Australian International Academic Centre
This paper examines the lexicon of the Yoruba child at the initial stage. We examined the composition of the early lexicon of the Yoruba child and how they are acquired. The research is couched in the Minimalist Programme which believes that language acquisition is a matter of learning vocabulary and determining lexical idiosyncrasies. A quantitative analysis of the data is carried out. The database consisted of longitudinal studies of three children, Damilare, Temiloluwa and Tola, between the ages of fifteen (15) and thirty-six (36) months. We found that there were few lexical items which were gradually built up by the children. We also discovered that the first sets of words to be acquired are verbal items, followed by nominal items. The presence of transitive and intransitive verbs is noted in the utterances of the children and we conclude that the children make use of verbs related to actions and events that they or those around them are involved in.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Towards diversifying early language development research: The first truly global international summer/winter school on language acquisition (/L+/) 2021
P Aravena-Bravo, A Cristia, R Garcia, H Kotera, RK Nicolas, R Laranjo, ...
Journal of Cognition and Development 25 (2), 242-260 2024

yoruBa N anD S: an asymmetry In the CLass of PrePosItIons
M Amaechi, BE Arokoyo
Language, 3 2022

Àyẹ ̀wò Ìlò Àpólà-Orúkọ Aṣẹ̀d Nínú w tnrsọ Àjà Ló Lẹrù
FB Adékẹ̀yè, BE Arókoyọ̀
Yoruba Studies Review 6 (1), 1-14 2021

Studying the phonology of the Olkmi, Igala, Ow and Yorba languages: a comparative analysis
BE Arokoyo
Dialectologia: revista electrnica, 45-58 2020

An optimality theoretic study of the syllable structure and typology of Yorb nominals
BE Arokoyo, ME Oyinloye
Marang: Journal of Language and Literature 33, 5-23 2020

Living Lexicon
BE Arokoyo
The ACU Review 1 (1) 2019

Patterns of Negation in Ow
BE Arokoyo
Annual Conference on African Linguistics 50, University of British Columbia 50 2019

A lexicostatistics comparison of Standard Yorùbá, Àkúré ̣and Ìkàré ̣Àkókó dialects
BE Arokoyo, OO Lagunju
Journal of Universal Language 20 (2), 1-27 2019

Olkmi Language Documentation, Revitalization and Description
BE Arokoyo
Annual Conference on African Linguistics 49 49 2018

Unlocking Focus Constructions
BE Arokoyo
National Institute of Nigerian Languages 2018

Ow Linguistics: an Introduction
BE Arokoyo
National Institute of Nigerian Languages 2018

Comparing Reflexive and its Antecedents in Standard Yoruba and Owo Dialect
MOOBE Arokoyo
University of Uyo Journal of Humanities 22 (1), 69-82 2018

Ow Lexicon
BE Arokoyo
http://www.bolanlearokoyo.com/owelexicon 2017

Ow Revitalization: a Call to Action
BE Arokoyo
2017

Olukumi Bilingual Dictionary
BE Arokoyo, O Mabodu
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages 2017

Ow Bilingual Dictionary
BE Arokoyo
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages 2017

Unlocking Morphology..
BE Arokoyo
Chridamel Publishing House 2017

Acquisition of Yoruba Bare Nouns
BE Arokoyo, M Amaechi
Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 2016

Complex Predicatesin the Early Speech of Yoruba Children
BE Arokoyo, BF Adekeye
Akungba Journal of Linguistics and Literatures, 7 10-27, Department of 2016

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

A COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGY OF OLUKUMI, IGALA, OWE AND YORUBA LANGUAGES
BE AROKOYO
Multi-disciplinary Approaches to the Study of African Languages: a 2016
Citations: 25

A Comparative Phonology of the Olkmi, Igala, Owe and Yoruba Languages
BE Arokoyo
Towards Proto-Niger Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, Paris, 18-21 2012
Citations: y of the Olkmi, Igala, Owe and Yoruba Languages

Unlocking Morphology..
BE Arokoyo
Chridamel Publishing House 2017
Citations: 18

Unlocking Focus Constructions
BE Arokoyo
National Institute of Nigerian Languages 2018
Citations: uctions

Unlocking Focus Constructions
BE Arokoyo
National Institute of Nigerian Languages 2018
Citations: 17

Acquisition of Yoruba Argument Structure by Pre-School Children in Nigeria
BE Arokoyo
University of Ilorin 2010
Citations: 13

A lexicostatistics comparison of Standard Yorùbá, Àkúré ̣and Ìkàré ̣Àkókó dialects
BE Arokoyo, OO Lagunju
Journal of Universal Language 20 (2), 1-27 2019
Citations: 11

Olukumi Bilingual Dictionary
BE Arokoyo, O Mabodu
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages 2017
Citations: 10

A Survey of Focus Constructions in Ow
BE Arokoyo
Current Perspectives in Phono-Syntax and Dialectology, 120-139 2009
Citations: 10

Ow Linguistics: an Introduction
BE Arokoyo
National Institute of Nigerian Languages 2018
Citations: 9

A comparative study of reduplication in Hausa and standard Yoruba
BE Arokoyo
Alore: Ilorin Journal of the Humanities 16, 133-151 2006
Citations: 8

Aspects of the Phonology of the Okun Dialects
BE Arokoyo
A Festschrift for Ayo Bamgbose: The Nigerian Linguistics Festschrifts Series 2007
Citations: 7

„Aspects of Ow focus constructions: A Government and Binding approach‟
BE Baiyere
MA Thesis Submitted to the Dept of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages 2004
Citations: 4

A Lexicostatistics Comparison of Yorb, Igbo and Olkmi Dialects
BE Arokoyo
Inquiry in African Languages and Literatures. 9, 1-9 2016
Citations: 2

Emphatic-Case Assignment in Focus Constructions: Evidence from Ow
BE Arokoyo
CENTREPOINT: A Journal of Intellectual, Scientific and Cultural Interest 2004
Citations: 2

yoruBa N anD S: an asymmetry In the CLass of PrePosItIons
M Amaechi, BE Arokoyo
Language, 3 2022
Citations: 1

An optimality theoretic study of the syllable structure and typology of Yorb nominals
BE Arokoyo, ME Oyinloye
Marang: Journal of Language and Literature 33, 5-23 2020
Citations: 1

Early Lexicon of the Yoruba Child
BE Arokoyo
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 1 (5), 64-75 2012
Citations: 1