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West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions (2017)
Journal Article
Salffner, S. (2017). West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions. Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 1-44. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.94

Cross-linguistically, statements tend to be pronounced with low or falling pitch and questions with high or rising pitch, a form–meaning pairing which has been attributed to the frequency code (Ohala, 1984). In many West African languages, however, q... Read More about West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions.

A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation (2015)
Journal Article
Salffner, S. (2015). A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation. Language Documentation & Conservation, 9, 237-267

Language documentation collections contain valuable and unique resources on the languages and cultures of the people represented in the collection. To allow users to understand and use one particular collection, this article provides a guide to the l... Read More about A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation.

Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Gefter, A., & Salffner, S. (2013). Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo. [print photographs (games and toys), print exhibtion catalogue (text, contextual photographs), videos (games, descriptions of games, consent sessions), audio (consent sessions, electronic photographs (consent session), toy bamboo cars]. 20 May 2013 - 2 August 2013. (Unpublished)

We have all played some form of football at some point in our lives, but what is your favourite game and what toys did you use to play with? Do you know the games ames, lago, ayo, ekpe, okuto, cashew, locker, abas, ludo, tyre, ring or whot? Have you... Read More about Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo.

Why Ukaan is hard to classify (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salffner, S., & Sands, B. (2012, September). Why Ukaan is hard to classify. Paper presented at The Niger-Congo International Congress, Center for African Linguistics, Languages and Cultures, Paris

In this paper, we look at Ukaan, an endangered minority language spoken in south-western Nigeria. Ukaan has not been investigated much but has nonetheless received a great number of rather different classifications, most recently as an Edoid language... Read More about Why Ukaan is hard to classify.

Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection (2012)
Book Chapter
Salffner, S. (2012). Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection. In R. Blench, & S. McGill (Eds.), Advances in Minority Language Research in Nigeria (137-190). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

This paper reports on aspects of the verbal morphology of Ikaan, an endangered minority language spoken in Nigeria. In addition to regular and obligatory tense-aspect-mood inflection, Ikaan shows a range of optional morphemes in the verb which transl... Read More about Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection.

Ikaan and related dialects of Ukaan: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State, Nigeria) (2010)
Data
Salffner, S. (2010). Ikaan and related dialects of Ukaan: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State, Nigeria). [Data]

This dataset is a partially annotated audio-visual corpus of linguistic and cultural data for the Ikaan lect of the Ukaan/AIKA language cluster.

For the Ikaan lect, there are audio recordings of stories, riddles, proverbs, songs, historical narrat... Read More about Ikaan and related dialects of Ukaan: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State, Nigeria).

Power solutions in the field: Solar power for laptop computers (2007)
Other
McGill, S., & Salffner, S. (2007). Power solutions in the field: Solar power for laptop computers. London

The task of language documentation is increasingly tied to computers, for processing both text and audio. Working in the field can create problems that many of us do not experience in our home countries. Many language communities live in remote locat... Read More about Power solutions in the field: Solar power for laptop computers.

Field linguistics (2007)
Book Chapter
Raymond, M., Salffner, S., & McGill, S. (2007). Field linguistics. In E.-A. Urua, & I. I. Udoh (Eds.), Handbook of contemporary linguistics. Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, Uyo University

Farming, food and yam: language and cultural practices among Ikaan speakers: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State and Edo State, Nigeria)
Data
Salffner, S. (2012). Farming, food and yam: language and cultural practices among Ikaan speakers: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State and Edo State, Nigeria). [Data]

This corpus contains linguistic and cultural data on Ikaan, a dialect of Ukaan, which is spoken in two villages in south-western Nigeria. This research project behind the corpus investigates phonetic and phonological variation among speakers based on... Read More about Farming, food and yam: language and cultural practices among Ikaan speakers: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State and Edo State, Nigeria).