Ekegusii Phonemic Inventory Constraints on Borrowing: An Optimality Perspective

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dc.contributor.authorEdinah Mose Gesare, Nandelenga Henry Simiyu & Ayieko Gerry
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-15T07:41:08Z
dc.date.available2024-07-15T07:41:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.descriptionJournal Article
dc.description.abstractSound adaptat ion is a phenomenon that languages cannot escape in bor rowing. This is because phonemic inventor ies differ significant ly. This paper explores how Ekegusii nat ive speakers map foreign segments from English so that they conform to the inventory const raints of Ekegusii. In this paper , couched in Opt imality Theory (OT) , it is demonst rated that English vowels are mapped to Ekegusii front and back vowels respect ively const rained by shared features while consonant adaptat ion is guided by shared features as well. This is to ensure that segments that are unmarked cross linguist ically are adapted over the marked ones. OT’s markedness const raints largely dominate the faithfulness const raints because modificat ions must occur when English loanwords are different from their Ekegusii counterpar ts in the mapping process.
dc.identifier.citationEdinah M. G., Nandelenga H. S. & Ayieko G. (2019): Ekegusii Phonemic Inventory Constraints on Borrowing: An Optimality Perspective.: The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies.: DOI No.: 10.24940/ theijhss/ 2019/ v7/ i6/HS1906-015
dc.identifier.issn2321 - 9203
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4714
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol7 Issue 6
dc.subjectConst raints
dc.subjectfaithfulness
dc.subjectmarkedness
dc.subjectoptimal
dc.subjectadaptation
dc.titleEkegusii Phonemic Inventory Constraints on Borrowing: An Optimality Perspective
dc.typeArticle

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