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How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties

This study shows how Donald Trump, by intentionally mispronouncing the first name of his opponent in the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris, supports the theory that the English lexicon is composed of subsystems. The words which belong to one subsystem share linguistic properties that disting...

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Hlavní autor:	Fournier, Pierre
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Jazyk:	Anglais
Vydáno:	Angles 2026
Témata:	loanwords subsystems phonetic and phonological properties stress assignment discursive strategies Kamala Harris
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_12261 https://doi.org/10.4000/1630c urn:doi:10.4000/1630c en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/12261 2026-04-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/1630c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Fournier, Pierre loanwords subsystems phonetic and phonological properties stress assignment discursive strategies Kamala Harris This study shows how Donald Trump, by intentionally mispronouncing the first name of his opponent in the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris, supports the theory that the English lexicon is composed of subsystems. The words which belong to one subsystem share linguistic properties that distinguish them from the items of the other subsystems. Each subsystem arises from the interaction of specific phonetic, phonological, letter-to-sound, morphological, segmental, syntactic, semantic, and frequency-related properties, which makes it possible to distinguish the subsystems from each other. Native English speakers are sensitive to the different properties of sublexica and in particular to those of loanwords which are grouped in the §Foreign subsystem. The words of the §Foreign subsystem balance conforming to English-system principles with maintaining their own distinct features, as they often retain some properties of the source languages. This conflict gives them a specific status in English, especially from the point of view of pronunciation. By intentionally pronouncing Kamala Harris’s first name with phonetic and phonological principles that are typically attested in the words of foreign origin and which are detailed in the article (location of primary stress, pronunciation of stressed vowels with a “foreign value” and absence of vowel reduction in unstressed contexts), Donald Trump, as a political strategist, points to Kamala Harris’s origin and, by doing so, attempts to discredit the Democratic candidate in the eyes of the American electorate.
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topic	loanwords subsystems phonetic and phonological properties stress assignment discursive strategies Kamala Harris
spellingShingle	loanwords subsystems phonetic and phonological properties stress assignment discursive strategies Kamala Harris Fournier, Pierre How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties
description	This study shows how Donald Trump, by intentionally mispronouncing the first name of his opponent in the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris, supports the theory that the English lexicon is composed of subsystems. The words which belong to one subsystem share linguistic properties that distinguish them from the items of the other subsystems. Each subsystem arises from the interaction of specific phonetic, phonological, letter-to-sound, morphological, segmental, syntactic, semantic, and frequency-related properties, which makes it possible to distinguish the subsystems from each other. Native English speakers are sensitive to the different properties of sublexica and in particular to those of loanwords which are grouped in the §Foreign subsystem. The words of the §Foreign subsystem balance conforming to English-system principles with maintaining their own distinct features, as they often retain some properties of the source languages. This conflict gives them a specific status in English, especially from the point of view of pronunciation. By intentionally pronouncing Kamala Harris’s first name with phonetic and phonological principles that are typically attested in the words of foreign origin and which are detailed in the article (location of primary stress, pronunciation of stressed vowels with a “foreign value” and absence of vowel reduction in unstressed contexts), Donald Trump, as a political strategist, points to Kamala Harris’s origin and, by doing so, attempts to discredit the Democratic candidate in the eyes of the American electorate.
author	Fournier, Pierre
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title	How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties
title_short	How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties
title_full	How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties
title_fullStr	How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties
title_full_unstemmed	How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties
title_sort	how donald trump’s intentional mispronunciations of kamala harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties
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How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties

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