Faculty Profiles

Agwuele, A. (2024). Greyness Is Aged, Bearded Is Adult: Yoruba Age and  Seniority. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 269–285.

Agwuele, A. (2023). Mwaghavul language and culture. In in Beale-Rosano-Rivaya, Y.C. (ed.). Minority and Minoritized Languages and Cultures: A resource for teaching about language in the Humanities. San Marcos, Texas Stte University Press. Retrieved from https://pressbooks.txst.edu/minoritylanguages/

Agwuele, A. (2023). “Ohùn-Yoruba anti-archy youth attitude and expressions.” The Mouth: Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society, 10, 140–158. Retrieved from https://themouthjournal.com/

Agwuele, A. (2023). ““Igboro ni mo wa”: Popular Linguistic Innovation among  Yoruba youth in urban cities. In Deborah Pellow and Suzanne Scheld (eds.)  Africa and Urban Anthropology: Theoretical and methodological contributions from contemporary fieldwork. NY: Routledge.

Agwuele, A. (2021). Exertions is not connected to success: everyday Yoruba discourse of work and success’. Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, (91), 810–831. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972021000590

Nyamwange, A, A., Nyamwaka, E., Mongare, E., & Agwuele, A. (2020). Construction of AbaGusii cultural image and identity in Christopher Monyoncho’s popular poetry: The Prevalent Theme of Marriage Blues. Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies., Vol. 2 No. 4 (2020), 76–94.

Agwuele, A. (n.d.). Coarticulation: Segmental and Suprasegmental Interaction in Yoruba. In Handbook of African Linguistics. Routledge.

Agwuele, A. (2018). “Intensification and Attenuation: Colonial influences on Yoruba Culture. In Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. NY. Palgrave, USA.

Agwuele, A., & Bodomo, A. (2018). The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics. Routledge.

Agwuele, A., & Bodomo, A. (2018). Introduction African Linguistics. In The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics (pp. 1–12).

Agwuele, A. (2018). Coarticulation: Segmental and Suprasegmental Interactions in Yoruba (pp. 121–149).

Mong’are, E. O., & Agwuele, A. (2017). Identity Construction in three AbaGusii Bewitchment narratives. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language (IJSCL), 5, 29–43.

Agwuele, A. (2016). Culture trumps fact: “race” in the language of educated American Elites. Social Analysis, 60(2).

Agwuele, A., & Lotto, A. (2016). Essays in Speech Processes: Language Production and Perception. Sheffield, London: Equinox Publishing.

Agwuele, A., & Domsch, C. (2016). The Animal-to-Human Speech Connection- Harvey Sussman’s conjectures” In, Essays in Speech Processes: Language Production and Perception. In A. Lotto (Ed.), Essays in Speech Processes: Language Production and Perception (pp. 20–29). Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.

Agwuele, A. (2016). Interaction of Yoruba Tones with VCV Segments: A Research Note. In A. Lotto (Ed.), Essays in Speech Processes: Language Production and Perception (pp. 344–366). Sheffield: Equinox. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781781793121-016

Agwuele, A. (2016). Body Talk and Cultural Identity in the African World. Sheffield, UK: Equinox.

Agwuele, A. (2016). The Symbolism and Communicative contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland. NY: Palgrave, Macmillan.

Agwuele, A. (2015). Coarticulation of Tone and CV segment in citation and sentence forms. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. the University of Glasgow: The Scottish  Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.). Glasgow. https://doi.org/ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4

Agwuele, A. (2015). Introduction: Nonverbal Communication in Some African Societies and Institutions. In Body Talk and cultural Identity in the African World (pp. 1–13). Sheffield: Equinox.

Agwuele, A. (2015). Nonverbal Message: The Yoruba View of “Deviant” Male Hairstyles. In Body Talk and Cultural Identity in the African World (pp. 162–180). Sheffield: Equinox.

Agwuele, A. (2014). Repertoire of Yoruba hand and facial Gestures. Gesture, 14(1), 70–96.

Agwuele, A. (2013). Yoruba Language and Culture: Non-Verbal Communicative Signals. In West African Research Association Spring Newslettter (pp. 14–15). Boston University. Retrieved from http://www.bu.edu/wara/files/2010/07/Spring-2013.pdf

Agwuele, A. (2013). Sociolinguistics. In J. R. McGee & R. L. Warms (Eds.), Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Sage Publications.

Agwuele, A. (2013). Chomsky, Noam. In J. R. McGee & R. L. Warms (Eds.), Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Sage Publications.

Agwuele, A. (2012). Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa. NY: Routledge.

Agwuele, A. (2012). From Village Square to Internet Square: Language and Culture at the USA-Africa Dialogue Series. In Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa (pp. 1–9). NY: Routledge.

Agwuele, A. (2012). Introduction: Betwixt Modernism and Modernity. In Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa (pp. 79–105). NY: Routledge.

Agwuele, A. (2012). Indexicality of Wọ́n: Yoruba Language and Culture. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24(2), 1–13.

Agwuele, A. (2012). Personal Encounter with “The Africans: A Triple Heritage. Newsletter: Institute of Global Cultural Studies. Binghamton University.

Agwuele, A., & Thomas Spear. (2012). Popular Culture and the Study of Africa. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: African Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Agwuele, A., & Sussman, H. (2011). CV Coarticulation in Yoruba- A tonal language. In W. S. Lee & E. Zee (Eds.) (pp. 204–207).

Agwuele, A. (2010). Linguistic Relativity: “Lexical Understanding across Languages. “KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies. Retrieved from 17Nr/2-2/2- http://www.inst.at/trans/17Nr/2-2/2-2_agwuele17.htm

Falola, T., & Agwuele, A. (2009). Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture. NY: University of Rochester Press.

Agwuele, A., & Falola, T. (2009). Popular Culture of Yoruba Kinship Practices. In Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture (pp. 41–63).

Falola, T., & Agwuele, A. (2009). Introduction. In Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture (pp. 1–15). NY: University of Rochester Press.

Lindholm, B., Sussman, H. M., & Agwuele, A. (2009). A duration-dependent account of coarticulation for hyper-and hypoarticulation. Phonetica, 66, 188–195.

Agwuele, A., Sussman, H., & Lindblom, B. (2009). The Effect of Speaking Rate on Consonant Vowel Coarticulation. Phonetica, 65, 1–16.

Sussman, H., Lindblom, Bj., & Agwuele, A. (2009). A duration-dependent account of coarticulation for hyper and hypo- articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 2697.

Agwuele, A. (2008). Language Use and Culture: Implication for Self Reliance. In T. Babawale & A. Alao (Eds.), Global African Spirituality, Social Capital and Self Reliance in Africa. Lagos & Oxford: Malthouse Press Limited.

Agwuele, A. (2008). Practice of Historical Linguistics and Language Codification in Africa. History Compass, 6(1), 1–24.

Agwuele, A. (2008, November 28). [Review of Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology, by R. Juliet]. Retrieved from http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3649.html#1

Lindholm, B., Agwuele, A., Sussman, H., & Cortes, E. E. (2007). The effect of emphatic stress on consonant vowel coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 3802–3813.

Agwuele, A., Sussman, H. M., Lindblom, B., Miller, A., & Barry, W. J. (2007). Differentiating the Effects of Speech Tempo on CV Coarticulation. In J. Trouvain (Ed.) (Vol. 1, pp. 617–620).

Agwuele, A. (2005). “Yorubaisms” in African American “Speech” Patterns. In M. Child & T. Falola (Eds.), Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (pp. 325–345). Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press.

Agwuele, A. (2004). Effect of stress on coarticulation. In J. Slifka, S. Manuel, & M. Matthies (Eds.) (pp. C109-114).

Agwuele, A., Warren, W., & Park, H. (Eds.). (2004).

Agwuele, A. (2003). African Languages. In T. Fabola (Ed.), Africa: Vol. 5: Contemporary Africa (Vol. 5, pp. 735–757). Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Agwuele, A. (2003). The effect of Stress on consonantal loci. In M. J. Solé, D. Recasens, & J. Romero (Eds.) (Vol. 1, pp. 787–790). Adelaide Causal Publications.

Agwuele, A. (2003). The effect of syllabification and gemination on F2 onsets in Swedish. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4), 2255.

Agwuele, A. (2002). English and Politics. In T. Fabola (Ed.), Nigeria in the Twentieth Century (pp. 899–906). Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Agwuele, A., & Park, H. (2002). Retrieved from http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2002tls/TLS_2002_Proceedings.html