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Damaris W. Karũrũ currently teaches Language and Communication at the Technical University 
of Kenya. She is an experienced language teacher who studied Linguistics at the University of 
Nairobi in the Department of Linguistics and Languages. She has published researches on 
borrowing and adaptation as well as in phonology and morphology. Her publications include 
“Phonological Adaptation of Kiswahili Loanwords in Gĩ-Gĩchũgũ Dialect of Gĩkũyũ Language: An 
Application of Source - Similarity Model” in Baraton Interdisciplinary Research Journal (BIRJ) 
and the book Borrowing and Adaptation of Loanwords: from English and Kiswahili to Gikuyu 
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing). Her research interest is in lexical borrowing as well as in 
Bantu phonology and morphology.