González, M (forthcoming): African Heritage in Brazilian Music (working title), to appear in Cambridge Companion to Music in Brazil, org. by Rogério Budasz and Tiago de Oliveira Pinto.

Ros, S. (2024). Drumming dialogues: Investigating the fusion of sabar drums and Wolof in Senegal. CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics, 6, 213–227. https://doi.org/10.56907/gyr3yd19

Ros, S., & Palmieri, G. (2024). Verb-marked reciprocals in Wolof. In Y. Huang, N. H. Kaldhol, J. J. Lim, S. Rose, & A. Struthers-Young (Eds.), ACAL in SoCAL: Selected Papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (pp. 475–489). Language Science Press. [pdf]

Oludare, O. (2023): Towards a Generative Approach in Understanding the Kónkóló Timeline in Yoruba Music. Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication. https://doi.org/10.4148/1944-3676.1128

Winter, Y. and L. McPherson, editors (2022). Surrogate Languages and the Grammar of Language-Based Music, Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. link

Winter, Y. and L. McPherson (2022). Introduction, Surrogate Languages and the Grammar of Language-Based Music, Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. link

González, M. and O. Oludare (2022): The Speech Surrogacy Systems of the Yoruba Dùndún and Bàtá Drums. On the Interface Between Organology and Phonology. Frontiers of Communication 6 (2022). Link

Oludare, O. (2022): Street Language in Dùndún Drum Language: A Musico-Lingual Perspective on Street Cultures in Nigeria African Music. African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v12i1.2429

Ros, S. (2021). Rhythm–speech correlations in a corpus of Senegalese drum language. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.643683

Ros, S. (2020): Senegalese Sabar — is it a drum language. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Languages of the Far East, Southeast Asia and West Africa LESEWA-XIV. Moscow: Kluch-S. 132-134. Link

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Popular articles

Ros, S. (2025). SABAR. Babel: The Language Magazine, 51(Summer), 26–27.

Ros, S. (2020): Senegalese sabar – Is it a drum language? Speech Surrogates website. Link