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The Yorùbá sound system and its three tones, with worked minimal pairs showing how pitch alone changes a word's meaning.

An analysis of the Yorùbá three-level register tone system, demonstrating through minimal pairs and grammatical operations why tone is an essential phonemic component rather than optional decoration.

An analysis of Yoruba tongue twisters, tonal word play, and riddles as pedagogical instruments for phonological acquisition and cognitive development.

In Yoruba, pitch is not accent, it is spelling. Three words can share every letter and differ only in tone, which is why stripping tone marks from a text is closer to deleting vowels than to dropping an accent mark.