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Item An Ethno-Statistical Analysis of Direct and Indirect Acts in Catchy HIV/AIDS Campaign Messages in Benin Metropolis(International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2015) Solomon-Etefia, P. O.; Nweya, G. O.Catchy HIV/AIDS campaign messages in Benin metropolis exhibit the characteristics of direct and indirect acts. These acts play pragmatic roles in peoples’ understanding of catchy HIV/AIDS campaign messages in Benin metropolis. This paper investigates direct and indirect acts in HIV/AIDS catchy campaign messages in Benin metropolis from an ethno-statistical perspective; it assess respondents’ understanding of the campaign messages with the features of directness and indirectness. The data for the study were collected using the questionnaires from five LGAs in Benin metropolis. These are Oredo, Ikpoba-Okha, Ovia-North-East and Ovia-South-West and the data was analysed using the simple percentages. The paper reveals that some respondents could not understand some of the messages because of the pragmatic indirectness. It was also observed that background characteristics (age, education, gender, and ethnic group), understandable language for reading and writing of respondents and how HIV/AIDS messages were known play a major role in understanding the direct and indirect acts in the messages. The paper concludes by advising the message provider to write in simpler form for the effectiveness of these campaign messages, creating of messages in native languages is also encouraged.Item On the vowels of Imilike Dialect of the Igbo Language(Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2015-01) Nweya, G. O.This is a study of the vowels of Imilike dialect, a variety of Northern Igbo dialect. Its specific objectives include identifying the vowels of the dialect, determine their phonemic status, distributional pattern and phonotactic constraints and as well compare them with those displayed by the standard Igbo. Data for the study were collected using unstructured interview and observation. Data were analysed in the framework of generative phonology. Minimal pair test was conducted to identify the vowels of the dialect. The study reveals that the dialect displays eleven vowels including the open mid front unrounded vowel /£/ and the central vowels, [a] and [a]. AH except the central vowels are phonemic in the dialect. The central vowels are in free variation with other vowels in the dialect. AH the vowels occur in word initial, word medial and word final positions except the central vowels which do not occur in word initial position. The study also attests to the strict operation of vowel harmony in the dialect as in other Northern Igbo dialects. The study concludes that Imilike dialect displays more vowels than the standard Igbo.Item Mmetuta Usorookwu Na Echiche N'asusu Igbo(2013-06) Nweya, G. O.This paper examines inflection in the Imilike dialect of the Igbo language with emphasis on the verb inflection. The study adopts a descriptive approach based on surface structure analysis. Verbs were inflected for tense/aspect, mood and polarity in Imilike. The paper reveals that some inflectional affixes and strategies of achieving inflection in the dialect when compared with the standard Igbo and consequently influences the choice of affixes used to achieve inflection of verbs. The dialect employs strategies such as the optional use of the Open vowel prefix a/e, affix sequencing and more of the role suffixation to achieve inflection in the dialect. Tone plays a significant role in achieving inflection in the dialect as in the standard Igbo. The study points to the profound insight available from the study of various Igbo dialects.Item Inflection in the Imilike dialect of Igbo(Igbo Scholars, 2013) Nweya, G. O.This paper examines inflection in the Imilike dialect of the Igbo language with emphasis on the verb inflection. The study adopts a descriptive approach based on surface structure analysis. Verbs were inflected for tense/aspect, mood and polarity in Imilike. The paper reveals that some inflectional affixes and strategies of achieving inflection in the dialect when compared with the standard Igbo and consequently influences the choice of affixes used to achieve inflection of verbs. The dialect employs strategies such as the optional use of the Open vowel prefix a/e, affix sequencing and more of the role suffixation to achieve inflection in the dialect. Tone plays a significant role in achieving inflection in the dialect as in the standard Igbo. The study points to the profound insight available from the study of various Igbo dialects.Item A Phonemic Analysis of Imilike-Igbo Consonants(2018) Nweya, G. O.This paper studies the consonants of Imilike dialect, a variety of Northern Igbo dialect. The main goal of the study is to identify the consonants that make up the dialect and establish their phonemic status. The theoretical framework adopted for the analysis is generative phonology. Data for the study were collected through oral interview and observation. The study identifies forty phonetic consonant sounds in the dialect. Twelve out of the forty consonants result from secondary articulations such as palatalisation and labialisation. Twenty nine out of the forty phonetic consonant \1 , nts identified in the dialect were assigned phonemic status while others were regarded 11\ allophones of someother segments. The study reveals the presence of the voiced post alveolar fricative [3] which is absent in the standard Igbo and the absence of the voiced velar fricative / y/ which is present in the standard Igbo. It points to the unique phonological features of the dialect that distinguish it from the standard variety.Item Non verbal predication in Igbo(Crown Goldmine Communications, Ibadan, 2014) Nweya, G. O.This paper discusses non-verbal predication in Igbo. Predication captures the process of complementation that exists in SVO languages. The theoretical framework adopted for the analysis is the Minimalist Program (MP) of linguistic theory. The study identifies non-verbal predicates as nominal, adverbial and prepositional predicates in Igbo. In Igbo different morphosyntactic and predication categories make use of different copulas. These copulas obligatorily occur in nonverbal predication structures. On the structural relations, the paper' assumes, following Bowers (2001), that the relation of predication is better expressed if there is a functional category Pr whose function is to relate the subject to the predicate. In Igbo, the Pro is null; it attracts the NP/AdvPIPP object to adjoin to it due to its strong affixal features forming a complex head (p\ pImerges with the subject to form the PrP. The computation continues to generate a proposition thus, providing a descriptively and explanatorily adequate structural analysis of nonverbal predication structures in Igbo.