Author:Govender, Natasha; Kuun, C; Zimu, V; Barnard, E; Davel, MDate:Apr 2006Two related issues were investigated in the computational modeling of Nguni prosody, based on annotated databases of isiZulu and isiXhosa speech. Firstly, authors show that a simple template can be used to describe the tonal characteristics ...Read more
Author:Pretorius, L; Bosch, SDate:Mar 2009This paper investigates the possibilities that cross-linguistic similarities and dissimilarities between related languages offer in terms of bootstrapping a morphological analyser. In this case an existing Zulu morphological analyser prototype ...Read more
Author:Govender, Natasha; Barnard, E; Davel, MHDate:Jun 2007Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive standards for prosodic phenomena has meant that prosodic systems for most of the languages of the world have, at best, been described in ...Read more