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Contextual variability in the acceptability of Kenyan English grammatical features
(2013)
The present study set out to find out whether a number of grammatical
features assumed to be characteristic of Kenyan English would be
accepted at different levels depending on three parameters of linguistic
context: ...
Strategies of controlling the linguistic response from cross-examined witnesses: lay defendants as cross examiners in a kenyan resident magistrate’s court
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
This paper analyzes strategies of controlling the linguistic responses of
prosecution witnesses that were employed by two accused persons in a
grievous-bodily-harm case involving family members at a magistrate’s court
in ...
Onsanse's language: Not more than two-word utterances after forty years of exposure to four languages
(2013)
This paper set out to investigate the amount and nature of language the
subject of the study (Onsanse)has learnt for four decades of exposure to
several languages after being picked up at the age of 17, when he could
produce ...
Specific language impairment in the speech of Meshack, an Ekegusii speaker
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Research on SLI, mostly on European languages like English, German and
Italian, has suggested that it mainly affects inflectional morphology and,
to a lesser degree, syntax and phonology. The present study researched
SLI ...