Gokana has been argued to lacksyllables, a radical claim because syllables are traditionally considered to beuniversal. According to Hyman (1983), Gokana "does not organise its consonants and vowels into syllables." Hyman later amended his claim to say that "the syllable plays at best a minor role in theprosodic organisation of Gokana" and is perhaps not activated to express any generalisations in the language.[2]
Brosnahan, L. F. (1967) "A Word List of the Gokana Dialect of Ogoni"Journal of West African Languages 4(2): pp. 43–52
Hyman, Larry M. andComrie, B. (1981) "Logophoric Reference in Gokana"Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (Leiden) 3(1): pp. 19–37
Hyman, Larry M. (1982) "The representation of nasality in Gokana"In Hulst, Harry, van der and Smith, Norval (eds.) (1982)The Structure of Phonological Representations part, 1 Foris Publishing, Dordrecht, Holland,ISBN90-70176-53-X
Bond, Oliver and Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2005) "Divergent Structure in Ogonoid Languages"In (2005)Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society Volume 31, Berkeley Linguistic Society, Berkeley, California
