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Aspect Of The Phonology Of Yukuben
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1.7 DATA COLLECTION
The data for this research will be collected using “Language Informantâ€
to elicit data. The Ibadan word list of four hundred (400) basic
lexical items will be used in data collection.
The method
of the collection is through direct interviews with the informants
(language helper) alongside the usage of the Ibadan word list, which
contain items that are illuminating and capable of making a
linguistically significant generalization.
The information concerning the two informants used in this research are given below:
Informant 1
NAME: Augustin Bako
AGE: 35yrs
LANGUAGE SPOKEN: Yukuben, Hausa, Yoruba, Jukun, English
RELIGION: Christianity
YEARS LIVED IN YUKUBEN: 35 yrs
OCCUPATION: Security Man
ADDRESS: No. 1 Sabongida Yukuben, Takum Local Government, Taraba State.
MARITAL STATUS: Married
Informant 2
NAME: Bako Adamu
AGE: 90yrs
LANGUAGE SPOKEN: Yukuben, Hausa, Jukun, Kuteb
RELIGION: Christianity
YEARS LIVED IN YUKUBEN: 80yrs
OCCUPATION: Forest Guard (retired)
ADDRESS: No.4 Sabongida Yukuben, Takum Local Government Taraba State.
MARITAL STATUS: Married
1.8 DATA ANALYASIS
With the view of capturing linguistically significant generalizations
of the language under study, the analysis of the corpus will be carried
out by transcribing all linguistic corpus collected accurately, in order
to discover the stands that are attested in the language, in addition
to some other suprasegmental features. The data will be organized to
bring out all inventories of the distinctive phonemes and their
features.
The distribution of the data is also determined
alongside the syllable structure, phonological processes and tonal
processes.
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