Kenyan English Monophthongs: An Element Theory Approach

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dc.contributor.authorItumo, Joshua M.
dc.contributor.authorMaroko, Geoffrey Mokua
dc.contributor.authorNandelenga, Henry S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-06T09:19:20Z
dc.date.available2017-05-06T09:19:20Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes the acoustic characteristics of the non-ethnically marked Kenyan English (KenE) monophthongs and uses those characteristics to identify the phonemes and also to determine the internal Element Theory (ET) structure of the analysed segments. A purposively selected sample comprising fourteen lecturers was used. Oral data was obtained by audio recording as the subjects read ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’, a passage which is commonly used for English or acoustic analysis, which was done using Praat software. Quantitative data was further analysed using SPSS. The study mainly found out that the non-ethnically marked Kenyan English tends towards eight monophthongs. These monophthongs fall in five acoustic spaces and they are further isolated by vowel length.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research Volume 4, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 131-149en_US
dc.identifier.issn2376-760X
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.jallr.com/index.php/JALLR/article/view/546/pdf546
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/17146
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Applied Linguistics and Language Researchen_US
dc.subjectAcousticen_US
dc.subjectElement Theoryen_US
dc.subjectNon-ethnically markeden_US
dc.subjectPraaten_US
dc.subjectMonophthongsen_US
dc.titleKenyan English Monophthongs: An Element Theory Approachen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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