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Sociolinguistic Variation of Written Vowels (Ĩ) and (Ŭ) in Gĩkũyũ Texts in Mũrang’a County, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2020-11)
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 ...
Morphology of Nouns Among 2;3 To 5; 2-Year-Old Children Acquiring Kĩĩkamba In Makueni County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2020-11)
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 ...
Linguistic Borrowing in A Language Contact Situation: The Case of Igikuria and English in Migori County, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2020-07)
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 ...
Analysis of Sight Mistranslations of Newspaper Review Items from English to Kiembu in Wimwaro Fm Radio Station, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2021)
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 ...
Interpretations of English Nominal Elements by Form One Students in Selected Schools, Kitui County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2021)
The English language is, by far, recognized as one of the most invaluable language and the most used language in the world both spoken and written. The overall strength of this fact can be seen in Kenya. As an official ...