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Aspects Of Adim Phonology
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1.2.3 Occupation
The occupation of the Adim people
includes farming, hunting, gold-smiting e.g palm oil production, garri
making, and production of groundnut. However, their major occupation is
farming.
1.2.4 Festival
Since majority of the speakers
are Christians and Muslims, their festivals also go in line with the
various religions they belong.Traditional festivals are gradually fading
out while some had gone into extinction. There are two major types of
festivals celebrated by the Adim people namely; Iwon-erok “Yam festivalâ€
and they also celebrate masquerade festival.Ètà ngata and loboare the
names of the few masquerades they have in Adim village.
1.2.5 Marriage
In
Adim tradition, a keg of palm wine is the only item taken along when
going to ask for a girl’s hand in marriage. After the decision has been
made, the groom goes to pay bride price and takes along some other
things such as kola nut, palm oil, yam and garri which will be given to
the bride’s parent.
Before the wedding ceremony takes place,
the bride would be kept in the fattening room where she will be fed with
all kinds food to make her look more beautiful and attractive to her
husband on the wedding day and also to make her ready for the challenges
in her matrimonial home.
Polygamy is allowed in Adim village, but their major practice is monogamy.
1.2.6 Administration
Traditionally, the leader is “Oboloponâ€. He has absolute authority over
the people and he is unquestionable. He controls the administrative
aspect of the community and settles disputes. The council of eldersis
called kèpol. “Ókpéibìlì†is the name of the high priest in Adim
village. The secret societies that guide against external attack in Adim
village are Abu secret society, Okuwa secret society and Egup secret
society.
1.3 Scope and Organization of the study
This long
essay aims at studying aspects of Adim phonology. The sound inventory of
the language, the phonological process and tonal patterns attested in
language. This research work is divided into five(5) chapters.
Chapter
one provides general information on the language and its speakers.
Also, the chapter contains the socio-cultural profile of the people and
the genetic classification of the language under study. A brief
discussion of the theoretical frame work used in the work as well the
methodology adopted for data collection and analysis is included in this
chapter.
Chapter two discusses the sound system of the
language as well as the tonal and syllable structures. In chapter three,
our attention and focus was on the tonal processes attested in the Adim
language with their distributional patterns. In chapter four we
discussed the phonological processes.
Chapter five summarizes and concludes the work: We also give some recommendation and observation.
1.4 Theoretical framework
The
theoretical frame work used for this research is Generative Phonology
as propounded and explicated in Chomsky and Halle (1968).
According to Chomsky and Halle (1968:5), “Generative phonology views
speech as sequences of discrete segments which are complexes of a
particular set of phonetic features and the simultaneous and sequential
combination of these features and constraintsâ€.
Generative
phonology is apart of the linguistics theory which is called
“Transformational Generative Grammar(TG)†formulated by Chomsky (1957)
to address the inadequacies observed in classical (Taxonomic)theory of
phonological description (Fisher Jorgenson (1976:174). Generative
phonology gives the rule of generative phonology to express the
relationship between sound and meaning. It is pertinent to point out
that generative phonology accounts for some language phenomena like
linguistic intuition, foreign accent, speech error and others.
Hyman (1975:19) describes generative phonology as the description of how
phonological rules can be converted into phonological representation
and to capture the distinctive sound in contrast in a language.
Lyons(1979:18) opines that, the rules and structures generated through
generative phonology are “recursiveâ€. Therefore, one can conclude that
generative phonology explains the grammar that is structured by means of
a finite number of recursive rules operating up on a finite vocabulary.
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