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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Nguni languages"”.
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Subword segmental neural language generation for Nguni languages
… designed for a limited number of high-resource languages. These advances are not directly applicable to low-resource languages with distinctive linguistic characteristics. In this thesis we develop text generation models for the Nguni languages of South Africa -- isiXhosa, isiZulu, isiNdebele, …
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Grammars for generating isiXhosa and isiZulu weather bulletin verbs
… or otherwise, of textual weather summaries for Nguni languages. This is because of, among other things, the complexity of Nguni languages. The structure of these languages is very different from Indo-European languages, and therefore we cannot reuse existing technologies that were developed for …
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Izwe Lethu!: Visions of decoloniality through the re-imagining of electrical services
… The title translates to ‘Our Land’ in the Nguni languages. My response to the question of land is explained through the design and reconfiguration of three electrical sub-station buildings. The project seeks to uncover alternate understandings of the built environment by exploring it …
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Aspects of Tone and Voice in Phuthi
… tone shift, a phenomenon widely commented on for Nguni languages. Phuthi displays a number of unprecedented variations on tone shift and tone block, arising from a dine of tone-depression interactions not observed in other languages. Phuthi is shown to be a language that prohibits or severely …