About

Dr. Fusheini Hudu has been teaching at the University of Ghana since 2010. His primary teaching and research interests are in phonetics, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics and general research on Dagbani and African languages. For over a decade now, he has taught and engaged in collaborative research experience in several universities in Ghana and Canada, including full time, part time and visiting lectureships. Between 2012 and 2013, he was a fellow of the African Humanities Programme and took up residency at Rhodes University in South Africa. He has also trained and supervised many graduate students and held several administrative positions at the University of Ghana.

Education

BA (University of Ghana, 2002)

Msc. (University of Alberta, 2005)

PhD (University of British Columbia, 2010)

Research Interest

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Psycholinguistics
• Dagbani linguistics
• Field linguistics

Publications

Hudu, Fusheini and Abdallah Iddrisu. (2023). The morphological and syntactic functions of Dagbani nominal suffixes. Topics in Linguistics. 24(2): 30-50.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2023). The vowels of west African languages. Journal of West African Languages Anniversary Volume 50: 1-18.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2023) The narrative discourse of a bilingual talking drum: The case of the Dagomba timpani. Legon Journal of the Humanities. 34(2) 58-79. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v34i2.3

Kwame, Abukari, Veronika Makarova, Fusheini Hudu, and Pammla Petrucka. (2023). The Covid-19 Pandemic in Ghana: Exploring the Discourse Strategies in President Nana Addo’s Speeches. Humanities and Social Science Communications 10, 784. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599- 023-02253-1.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2023) The ethnography of surrogate speech in a foreign language: The case of the timpani drum language among the Dagomba of Ghana. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35:2, 187-200, DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2023.2186379

Hudu, Fusheini. (2022) Defining the prosodic word with segmental processes in Dagbani. Acta Linguistica Academica. 69(3) 271-300. DOI: 10.1556/2062.2021.00437.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2021). The utility of orthographic design for different users: The case of the approved Dagbani orthography. Language Documentation and Conservation. 15: 358–374

Hudu, Fusheini. (2021). Linguistic surrogacy with minimal semantics among the Dagomba of Ghana. Frontiers in Communication. 6: 1-7. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.649416

Hudu, Fusheini and Mohammed Osman Nindow. (2020) Nasality in Dagbani prosody. Folia Linguistica. 54(3): 527–550

Hudu, Fusheini. (2018). Asymmetries in the phonological behaviour of Dagbani place features: Implications for markedness. Legon Journal of the Humanities. 29(2): 197–240.
Hiraiwa, Ken, George Akanlig-Pare, Samuel Atintono, Adams Bodomo, Komlan Essizewa and

Fusheini Hudu. (2017). A comparative syntax of internally-headed relative clauses in Gur. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1).

Hudu, Fusheini. (2016). A phonetic inquiry into Dagbani vowel neutralisations. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 37(1): 59–89

Hudu, Fusheini. (2014). What is a phonological word in Dagbani? A positional faithfulness account. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 3.1: 1–44.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2014). Dagbani vowel phonology: competition between constraint hierarchies. In Kwesi Yankah, Kofi Saah and Nana Aba Amfo ed. A Legon reader in Ghanaian linguistics: 136–161. Ayebia Clarke Publishing.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2014). [ATR] feature involves a distinct tongue root articulation: evidence from ultrasound imaging. Lingua. 143: 36 – 51.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2013) Dagbani vowel harmony: triggers, targets and blockers. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.34(1): 47 – 73

Hudu, Fusheini. (2012). Dagbani focus particles, a descriptive study. Journal of West African Languages. 39:1. 97–129.

Hudu, Fusheini. (2008) The low vowel and retraction in St'át'imcets: an ultrasound investigation. SKY Journal of Linguistics 21: 67-81

EDITED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Hudu, Fusheini, Amanda Miller and Douglas Pulleyblank (2009) Ultrasound imaging and theories
of tongue root phenomena in African languages. In Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 2 153 – 163. (eds.) Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells. SOAS, London.

Hudu, Fusheini (2009) Focus marking in Dagbani. In Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria 19. Proceedings of the 23rd Northwest Linguistics Conference
Victoria, BC, Canada, Feb. 17-19, 2007. 13 – 29.

Hudu, Fusheini (2007). Morphological Category and Nasal Contrast in Dagbani. In SFU Working
Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 22 Northwest Conference on Linguistics 119 – 132. (eds.) Nicole Carter, Loreley Hadic-Zabala, Anne Rimrott, Dennis R. Storoshenko.