Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo

@unilorin.edu.ng

Professor, Faculty of Arts
Head, Others
University of Ilorin

Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Language and Linguistics, Arts and Humanities
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Scopus Publications

210

Scholar Citations

10

Scholar h-index

10

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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, et al.
    Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
    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
    Dialectologia, 2020
  • Early lexicon of the Yoruba child
    Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo
    International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2012
    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.
  • Null arguments in the Yoruba child’s early speech
    Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo
    International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2012
    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.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Creating a Digital Repository for Nigerian Language Studies: A Case Study from the University of Ilorin
    BE Arokoyo, MC Amaechi, B Ogunsola, FC Nwosu, C Omolewu, S Waziri
    Communicate: Journal of Library and Information Science 27 (2), 184-199 , 2025
    2025
  • 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
    2024
    Citations: 14
  • yoruBa NÍ anD SÍ: an asymmetry In the CLass of PrePosItIons
    M Amaechi, BE Arokoyo
    Language, 3 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 1
  • Àyẹ ̀wò Ìlò Àpólà-Orúkọ Aṣẹ̀dá Nínú Ìwé Ìtànàròsọ Àjà Ló Lẹrù
    FB Adékẹ̀yè, BE Arókoyọ̀
    Yoruba Studies Review 6 (1), 1-14 , 2021
    2021
  • Studying the phonology of the Olùkùmi, Igala, Owé and Yorùba languages: a comparative analysis
    BE Arokoyo
    2020
    Citations: 2
  • AN OPTIMALITY THEORETIC STUDY OF THE SYLLABLE STRUCTURE AND TYPOLOGY OF YORÙBÁ NOMINALS
    BE Arokoyo, ME Oyinloye
    Marang: Journal of Language and Literature 33 , 2020
    2020
  • Living Lexicon
    BE Arokoyo
    The ACU Review 1 (1) , 2019
    2019
  • Patterns of Negation in Owé
    BE Arokoyo
    Annual Conference on African Linguistics 50, University of British Columbia 50 , 2019
    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
    2019
    Citations: 19
  • Olùkùmi Language Documentation, Revitalization and Description
    BE Arokoyo
    Annual Conference on African Linguistics 49 49 , 2018
    2018
  • Unlocking Focus Constructions
    BE Arokoyo
    National Institute of Nigerian Languages , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 22
  • Unlocking Focus Constructions
    BE Arokoyo
    National Institute of Nigerian Languages , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 22
  • Owé Linguistics: an Introduction
    BE Arokoyo
    National Institute of Nigerian Languages , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 10
  • Comparing Reflexive and its Antecedents in Standard Yoruba and Owo Dialect
    MOOBE Arokoyo
    University of Uyo Journal of Humanities 22 (1), 69-82 , 2018
    2018
  • Owé Lexicon
    BE Arokoyo
    http://www.bolanlearokoyo.com/owelexicon , 2017
    2017
  • Owé Revitalization: a Call to Action
    BE Arokoyo
    2017
  • Olukumi Bilingual Dictionary
    BE Arokoyo, O Mabodu
    Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Owé Bilingual Dictionary
    BE Arokoyo
    Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 10
  • Unlocking Morphology..
    BE Arokoyo
    Chridamel Publishing House , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 32
  • Acquisition of Yoruba Bare Nouns
    BE Arokoyo, M Amaechi
    Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur , 2016
    2016

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Unlocking Morphology..
    BE Arokoyo
    Chridamel Publishing House , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 32
  • A COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGY OF OLUKUMI, IGALA, OWE AND YORUBA LANGUAGES
    BE AROKOYO
    Multi-disciplinary Approaches to the Study of African Languages: a … , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 32
  • A Comparative Phonology of the Olùkùmi, Igala, Owe and Yoruba Languages
    BE Arokoyo
    Towards Proto-Niger Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, Paris, 18-21 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 32
  • Unlocking Focus Constructions
    BE Arokoyo
    National Institute of Nigerian Languages , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 22
  • Unlocking Focus Constructions
    BE Arokoyo
    National Institute of Nigerian Languages , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 22
  • A lexicostatistics comparison of Standard Yorùbá, Àkúré ̣and Ìkàré ̣Àkókó dialects
    BE Arokoyo, OO Lagunju
    Journal of Universal Language 20 (2), 1-27 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 19
  • 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
    2024
    Citations: 14
  • Acquisition of Yoruba Argument Structure by Pre-School Children in Nigeria
    BE Arokoyo
    University of Ilorin , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 14
  • A Survey of Focus Constructions in Owé
    BE Arokoyo
    Current Perspectives in Phono-Syntax and Dialectology, 120-139 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 11
  • Owé Linguistics: an Introduction
    BE Arokoyo
    National Institute of Nigerian Languages , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 10
  • Owé Bilingual Dictionary
    BE Arokoyo
    Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 10
  • A comparative study of reduplication in Hausa and standard Yoruba
    B Arokoyo
    Alore, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 10
  • Aspects of the Phonology of the Okun Dialects
    BE Arokoyo
    A Festschrift for Ayo Bamgbose: The Nigerian Linguistics Festschrifts Series … , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 8
  • A Lexicostatistics Comparison of Yorùbá, Igbo and Olùkùmi Dialects
    BE Arokoyo
    Inquiry in African Languages and Literatures. 9, 1-9 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 5
  • „Aspects of Owé focus constructions: A Government and Binding approach‟
    BE Baiyere
    MA Thesis Submitted to the Dept of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages … , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 4
  • A Syntactic Analysis of the Language of Outdoor Advertisement: A Government and Binding Approach
    BE Arokoyo
    ALORE: Ilorin Journal of the Humanities 19, 150-168 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 3
  • Emphatic-Case Assignment in Focus Constructions: Evidence from Owé
    BE Arokoyo
    CENTREPOINT: A Journal of Intellectual, Scientific and Cultural Interest … , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 3
  • Studying the phonology of the Olùkùmi, Igala, Owé and Yorùba languages: a comparative analysis
    BE Arokoyo
    2020
    Citations: 2
  • Acquisition of Pronouns by Yoruba Children
    STBBE Arokoyo
    Aspects in Language Variation, Acquisition and Use: Festschrift for Prof … , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 2
  • Early Lexicon of the Yoruba Child
    BE Arokoyo
    International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 1 (5), 64 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 2