Author:Kuun, C; Zimu, V; Barnard, E; Davel, MDate:Nov 2005We study the relationship between lexical tone and measured values of fundamental frequency for several word classes in isiZulu, based on objective measurements from recordings of three speakers. For nouns and adjectives, both in isolation ...Read more
Author:Botha, G; Zimu, V; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2006The authors investigate the performance of text-based language identification systems on the 11 official languages of South Africa, when n-gram statistics are used as features for classification. In particular, the authors compare support ...Read more