Author:Govender, Natasha; Barnard, E; Davel, MDate:Nov 2005In order to bring the tools of statistical pattern recognition to bear on intonation modelling, we need tailor-made corpora in the languages of interest. We describe how two such corpora were developed (for isiZulu and isiXhosa, respectively). ...Read more
Author:Zerbian, S; Barnard, EDate:2008Much is already known about the prosodic systems of the indigenous South African languages from descriptions and analyses in the existing literature. All of the existing work has been carried out in the field of African studies or formal ...Read more
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