Publications
Ajibade, Matthew (Forthcoming). Heritage advantage in phonological perception is not a universal phenomenon.
Ajibade, Matthew (Forthcoming). Sonority-driven in a Yoruba child consonant harmony system, In African Languages on the Rise: A Festschrift for Francis Egbokhare.
Lotven, Samson & Matthew Ajibade (2004). Morphology in Gengbe and Yoruba ideophones, In Green, Christopher R. & Lotven, Samson (eds.), The Ghanaian linguistics nexus. (Contemporary African Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press. langsci-press.org/catalog/book/427
Ajibade, Matthew. 2023. A construction morphology approach to Yoruba numerals. Constructions, 15(2). doi.org/10.24338/cons-549
Conference Presentations
Upcoming
2025
Ajibade, Matthew, Darcy Isabelle, Kenneth De Jong. CV transitions and L1 experience explain perceptual discrimination of Yoruba labial-velar stops [Oral Presentation]. To be presented at the New Sounds 2025: The International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, University of Toronto, Canada (April 22-25).
Ajibade, Matthew & De Jong, Kenneth. Phonological experience and the perception of competing acoustic cues in labial-velar stops [Poster]. 25th Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (Jan 9-12, 2025).
Ajibade, Matthew (2024, Nov 7-10). Heritage speakers’ perceptual phonological advantage over non-native listeners is not a universal phenomenon [Oral Talk]. 49th Annual Boston University Conference of Language Development (BUCLD 49), Boston, MA.
Ajibade, Matthew & De Jong, Kenneth (2024, Oct 4-5). Native phonological effects and the perceptual salience of -CV transitions in intervocalic labial-velar stops [Oral Talk]. 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Ajibade, Matthew (2024, May 2-4). Perception of Yoruba [gb] across listener groups. 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), McGill University, Canada.
Ajibade, Matthew. (2023, October 20-21). Perception of labial-velar voicing contrast [poster presentation (available here]. MidPhon 28, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/linguistics/midphon28/images/programfinal1019.pdf