Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho

Sibeko, Johannes

doi:10.2989/16073614.2022.2149578

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“…As we expected, the Setswana syllabic 'r' is not covered by the Sesotho rules for syllabification as described in Sibeko (2022) and Sibeko and van Zaanen (2022a). Unfortunately, a proper Setswana word containing the 'r' c-syllable is not present in both lists of Setswana words.…”

Section: Least Used Wordsmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…The v-syllable structures showed consistently correct syllable placement in both Sepedi and Setswana. All v-syllable structures argued by Sibeko (2022) were identified for both Sepedi and Setswana. All word-initial, word-medial, and wordfinal v-syllable structures were correctly identified.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Rule-based systems are based on sets of rules carefully designed by language experts. According to Sibeko (2022), when the designed list of rules is properly implemented, syllable boundaries can be identified in any Sesotho word.…”

Section: Orthographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Sesotho rule-based system for syllabification uses rules for vowel-only syllables (vsyllables), consonant-only syllables (c-syllables), and consonant-vowel syllables (cv-syllables). According to Sibeko (2022) and Guma (1982) these are the only syllable types in Sesotho. Sibeko and Van Zaanen's (2022b) rule-based syllabification system takes one word per line as input and then outputs the syllabified version.…”

Section: Orthographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating the Sesotho rule-based syllabification system on Sepedi and Setswana words

Sibeko,

Setaka

2023

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)

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The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the recently developed automated rulebased syllabification system for Sesotho can be used broadly across the officially recognised South African Sotho-Tswana language group encompassing Sepedi, Sesotho and Setswana. We evaluate the automatic syllabification system on 400 words comprising 100 most frequently used words and 100 least-used words in Sepedi and Setswana as evident in the Autshumato corpus publicly available online. It is found that the Sesotho rule-based syllabification system can be used to correctly identify vowel-only syllables, consonant-vowel syllables and consonant-only syllables in Sepedi and Setswana. Among other findings, it has been demonstrated that words with diacritics as in the case of Sepedi are correctly broken down into syllables. We make two main recommendations. First, the rules for syllabification should be updated so that Sepedi diacritics are accommodated. Second, the syllabification system should be updated so that it reflects the broader Sotho-Tswana language group instead of being limited to Sesotho. Further research is needed to ascertain whether the complex consonant [ñ] behaves similarly in all three officially recognised Sotho-Tswana languages and evaluate the need for a specific rule for the [ñ] nasal consonant.

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Section: Least Used Wordsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Orthographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Orthographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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