TY - JOUR AU - Etim, God’spower PY - 2022/12/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Phonological processes in Ọrọ compound nouns JF - Journal of the Nigerian Languages Project JA - JNLP VL - 4 IS - SE - Articles DO - UR - https://jnlp.com.ng/index.php/home/article/view/31 SP - 45-57 AB - <p>This paper deals with the phonological processes that occur because of compounding&nbsp;in Ọrọ. The author concentrates on two processes – consonant weakening and&nbsp;assimilation. The data for the study were elicited from three selected native speakers&nbsp;of Ọrọ&nbsp; using the 1700 SIL Comparative African Wordlist, as well as a structured&nbsp;wordlist. The data were carefully coded and transcribed for&nbsp; analysis. Analyzing the&nbsp;data within the moraic phonological framework clearly brought out the modifications&nbsp;that segments undergo,&nbsp; thereby making explicit, the alteration in the syllable internal&nbsp;structure of the compounds as maintained in this paper. From the results&nbsp; of the&nbsp;analysis, the phonological processes entail that Ọrọ phonotactics play a major role in&nbsp;defining structurally preferred&nbsp; lexical items in the Ọrọ language. It is therefore opined&nbsp;that compounding in Ọrọ is defined by the phonotactic constraints of the&nbsp; language.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -