Variation in language occurs at all levels. This sociolinguistic study investigated variation in the orthographic representation of two linguistic variables: vowels (Ĩ) and (Ŭ) in the written Gĩkũyũ texts of residents of ...

This is a case study on motor speech skills in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The objectives of this study were to identify the types of speech impairments in children with CP, to describe the impact of impaired motor ...

Significant achievements have been made by feminists in challenging direct linguistic sexism by suggesting progressive and alternative ways language can be used to positively represent women. However, this has not hindered ...

Discourse is the language in use. A study on discourse markers (DMs) falls under discourse analysis which deals with the exploration of what language is employed for and therefore, it cannot be restricted only to the ...

Language acquisition is one of the developments that a typical child undergoes. Within their second year of life, Akamba children begin to produce simple forms of the language, for instance, lexical words. This occurs ...

English language influences other languages thus enriching their vocabularies. Igikuria is no exception to this statement. The study identified some of the nominals that Igikuria has borrowed from English and analyzed them ...

This thesis investigates immigration and women’s self-identity in selected novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo and Baingana. Significant in African diasporic literature is the effect of immigration on ...

This study sought to analyze mistranslations in the sight translation of news items from English to Kiembu in the daily nation and standard newspapers; with focus on Wimwaro F.M radio station. It sought to find out whether ...

Ellipsis is a linguistic universal, but is exhibited with variance from language to language. Ellipsis studies on Dholuo are not as widespread as the phenomenon is in human language. This study focused on elliptical elements ...

The study attempted to analyze Lunyore nouns semantically. It had three objectives. First, to identify the various noun classes of the Lunyore. Secondly, to find out whether morphological information influences class ...