September 14, 2020
Quite a conundrum: the multitudinous research questions of the talking drum
Samuel Akinbo has his hands full when it comes to researching the talking drum. The UBC Linguistics doctoral student and Language Sciences member found drummers are able to represent syllables, lexical tones and tonal processes of Yorùbá speech with the gángan, a talking drum used in Nigeria, in a...
