Author:Raborife, M; Zerbian, S; Ewert, SDate:Nov 2011The authors report on a study that involved the development of a corpus used to verify the performance of two tone labelling algorithms, with one algorithm being an improvement on the other. These algorithms were developed for speech synthesis ...Read more
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: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