Euphonic and Syllable Structure Processes in Gbagyi

This is an investigation of the effect of adjacent sounds on each other, their peculiar patterns and the syllable structure processes in Gbagyi A descriptive analytical method was used to elicit data using the Blench word list of 1017 lexical items as instrument for data collection. This research revealed that in Gbagyi, a nasal consonant assimilates the features of the consonant contiguous to it, a consonant is palatalized before a high front vowel, a vowel is nasalized after a nasal consonant and a final vowel of a verb stem is deleted before a noun or nominal which begins with a vowel. These findings no doubt contribute to the description of the sound systems of Gbagyi and the discipline of Phonology in general.