ATR Harmony in English Borrowed Words in Ng’aturukana: An Optimality Theory Account

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dc.contributor.authorTioko, Celestine Nkieny
dc.contributor.authorNandelenga, Henry Simiyu
dc.contributor.authorBarasa, David
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-07T12:54:28Z
dc.date.available2021-06-07T12:54:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionAn Article Published in Journal of Linguistics and Foreign Languagesen_US
dc.description.abstractEnglish is an official and language of instruction in schools in Kenya. From these contexts, Ng’aturukana, a language spoken by the Turkana people of North Western Kenya, gets into contact with English through trade, education, among other fields. As a consequence, the borrowed words have to be assimilated, especially through vowel harmony to befit Ng’aturukana. Vowel harmony which was observed to be bidirectional (both progressive and regressive) under the rule-based Generative Phonology was problematic in rule ordering. Optimality Theory was the better option to account for the vowel harmony phenomenon noted by this paper. Vowel Harmony is a special type of assimilation where vowels in the respective syllables or roots agree in terms of tongue root feature specification so that all belong to a harmonic set; Advanced Tongue Root [+ATR] or Retracted Tongue Root [-ATR]. To phonetically account for ATR, native speakers were asked to pronounce the borrowed words. All articulations were recorded, transcribed and glosses given. From the analyses, this paper reports three outcomes of Vowel Harmony in the borrowed words; firstly, regressive sharing of ATR feature was observed in situations where the root or suffixes ATR feature was stronger than the preceding root vowels. Secondly, both progressive and regressive ATR harmony simultaneously occurs in situations where the root ATR was stronger than the preceding and following roots vowels. Lastly, some vowels manifested opacity where regressive ATR was blocked from spreading to the preceding vowels.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTioko, C. N., Nandelenga, H. S., & Barasa, D. (2021). ATR harmony in English borrowed words in Ng’aturukana: An optimality theory account. Journal of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, 2(2). Retrieved from https://royalliteglobal.com/jlfl/article/view/620en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://royalliteglobal.com/jlfl/article/view/620
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/22285
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyallite Globalen_US
dc.subjectLanguage Contacten_US
dc.subjectNg’aturukanaen_US
dc.subjectBorrowingen_US
dc.subjectATR Harmonyen_US
dc.subjectAlignmenten_US
dc.subjectConstraintsen_US
dc.titleATR Harmony in English Borrowed Words in Ng’aturukana: An Optimality Theory Accounten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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