Author:Zerbian, S; Barnard, EDate:Sep 2008Tone in Bantu languages is rarely studied experimentally. This paper reports a production study which reveals the intricate interaction of tonal context and morphological structure in surface tone realization in Sepedi, a South African Bantu ...Read more
Author:Feld, M; Barnard, E; Van Heerden, C; Muller, CDate:Dec 2009Multilinguality represents an area of significant opportunities for automatic speech-processing systems: whereas multilingual societies are commonplace, the majority of speechprocessing systems are developed with a single language in mind. ...Read more
Author:Sharma Grover, A; Calteaux, Karen V; Van Huyssteen, G; Pretorius, MDate:Oct 2010South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that boasts a large number of official languages. Due to the efforts of the government and the local research and development (R&D) community all the official languages are enabled with ...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
