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ASSOCIATION OF PHONETICIANS AND PHONOLOGISTS IN NIGERIA

The Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria (APPN), founded in 2019, is an academic and professional body that promotes scholarship, research, and practice in phonetics, phonology, and public communication across Nigerian languages, dialects, English varieties, Pidgins, and sign languages. Its members work in higher institutions, media organisations, and communication agencies, engaging in speech analysis, transcription, translation, pronunciation training, and acoustic analysis using tools such as Praat, Wasp, and ELAN. APPN publishes the annual Journal of the Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria (JAPPIN) and supports innovative, interdisciplinary research, documentation of linguistic data, professional collaboration, postgraduate training, and capacity building through workshops and seminars, while also addressing emerging challenges in oral communication technologies and media.

Scholarly Publication

APPN publishes the Journal of the Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria (JAPPIN) annually, providing a platform for research on Nigerian languages, dialects, Pidgins, and varieties of English.

Research Facilitation

The association supports innovative research through the collection, transcription, annotation, and documentation of phonological data across Nigerian and foreign languages.

Training and Workshops

APPN organizes seminars and workshops to promote native-like, intelligible pronunciations for teachers, trainers, and members of the public communication sector.

Technological and Media Engagement

The association explores practical challenges in oral communication via online tools, voice automation, and robotics to enhance understanding and teaching of spoken language.

Latest Articles

The latest Publications

JAPPIN Vol 6

In the over-50 years he spent teaching English in Nigeria, Prof David Jowitt committed himself to the study, description and analysis of the Nigerian variety of English. ... More Details

JAPPIN Vol 5

This research sets out to: 1)identify the English phonological and phonetic features of monologic cultural marketing discourse in a trending online video tagged “Afrokids”, 2)... More Details

JAPPPIN Vol 4

The social media space is replete with ‘teachers’ like Lizzy Jay Omo Ibadan, who deploy the medium to poke fun at the problem of ‘at risk-readers’. Her Lesson Comic Skits are d... More Details

JAPPIN Vol 3

This study investigated foreign accent acquisition by second language users in Nigeria. Data for this study were four internet videos that were purposively selected for this st... More Details

JAPPIN Vol 2

This paper is fundamentally concerned with questioning the canonicity of the British Received Pronunciation (RP) system, which is almost normally taken to comprise forty-four (... More Details

JAPPIN Vol 1

This paper attempts a morphophonemic study of the 's' morph in Yoruba English newscasters' (YENs) speech. The study seeks to ascertain YENs' mastery of the realisations of the a... More Details

Our Members

A professional team of experienced and competent specialists.

Prof Omotosho Moses Melefa - Executive

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President

Prof Omotosho Moses Melefa lectures English language courses at the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukk... More Details

Dr Carol Ngozi Anyagwa - Executive

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Vice President

Carol Ngozi Anyagwa is a Nigerian-born phonologist with over 15 years experience in speech training, speech therapy, language teaching and r... More Details

Prof. Rotimi Oladipupo - Executive

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Editor

Prof. Modupe O. Onwochei - Executive

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Treasurer

Dr Emmanuel Adedayo Osifeso - Executive

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General Secretary

He teaches at Anchor University Lagos. His researches span English varieties, acoustic phonetics, corpus phonology, Applied Linguistics and ... More Details

Dr Michael Olayinka GBADEGESIN - Executive

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Assistant Editor

Michael Olayinka GBADEGESIN is a Senior Lecturer at Lead City University, Ibadan. He obtained both M. A and PhD from Obafemi Awolowo Univers... More Details