This article is a correction to:
The Language of Gángan, A Yorùbá Talking Drum
Samuel Kayode AkinboA Corrigendum on
The Language of Gángan, a Yorùbá Talking Drum
by Akinbo, S. K. (2021). Front. Commun. 6:650382. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.650382
In the original article, there were several errors. In the Abstract, certain words were omitted accidentally from the following sentence: “To conclude, Yorùbá drummers communicate via the gángan drum by transposing certain and maybe phonological conditions of their language to musical forms.”
A correction has been made to the Abstract:
“It is widely known that Yorùbá drummers communicate through their native drums. This paper investigates the grammar of gángan, which belongs to a family of Yoruba drums called dùndún. The results of this study show that Yorùbá drummers represent the phonetic realisation of lexical and grammatical tones of their language with the drum. Statistically, the speech tones and the acoustic correlate of the corresponding drum representations have a significant positive relationship. In both spoken and drum communication, vowel (V) and consonant-vowel (CV) prosodic units have different statuses. To conclude, Yorùbá drummers communicate via the gángan drum by transposing certain phonemic features and maybe phonological conditions of their language to musical forms.”
In addition, “/bájɔ́ / ‘Báyọ̀ (a name)’” should have been “/bájɔ̀/ “Báyọ̀” (a name)”, “ìlú “city”” should have been “/ìlú/ “city””, and “/ìlú/ “puncher”” should have been “/ìlu/ “puncher””.
A correction has been made to section 2 Background on Yorùbá Sound Inventory, subsection 2.2 Tone in Speech, paragraph 2:
“The tone-bearing unit in the language is a mora (Akinlabi and Liberman, 2000; Pulleyblank, 2004). Initial vowels in Yorùbá do not bear an H tone (Akinlabi, 1985; Pulleyblank, 2004; Pulleyblank, 2009). With sequences of H-L and L-H tones in the language, a contour tone is formed on the second tone3. However, this does not happen in H-M, M-H, L-M or M-L sequences (Ward, 1952; Akinlabi and Liberman, 1995). For example, words like /kpákò/ H-L “chewing stick” and /ìlú / “city” are realised as (kpákô) H-HL and (ìlú) L-LH respectively. The other relevant tonal process involves raising the pitch value of an H tone in a sequence of H-L tones and lowering the pitch of an L tone in a sequence of L-H tones (Akinlabi and Liberman, 1995; Laniran and Clements, 2003). For example, the pitch of H in /bájɔ̀/ “Báyọ̀” (a name) is higher than that of H in /bájɔ/ “exit through”, and the pitch value of L in /ìlú/ “city” is lower than that of L in /ìlu/ “puncher”.”
The authors apologize for these errors and state that these do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: tone, syllable, music, language, talking drum, Yoruba, speech surrogate
Citation: Akinbo SK (2021) Corrigendum: The Language of Gángan, a Yorùbá Talking Drum. Front. Commun. 6:773156. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.773156
Received: 09 September 2021; Accepted: 10 September 2021;
Published: 26 October 2021.
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