The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) family of applications is a set of multilingual tools that gather, cluster and classify news in currently fifty languages and that extract named entities and quotations (reported speech) from twenty languages. In this paper, we describe the recent effort of adding the African Bantu language Swahili to EMM. EMM is designed in an entirely modular way, allowing plugg...

In this paper we investigate the automatic detection of phoneme boundaries in audio recordings with the help of deep bidirectional LSTMs. This work is motivated by the needs of the project BULB which aims to support linguists in documenting unwritten languages. The automatic detection of phoneme boundaries in audio recordings of a new language is part of the technical requirements of the BULB p...

The aim of the study was to analyse the effects of 6 week (15 sessions) flywheel resistance training with eccentric-overload (FRTEO) on different functional and anatomical variables in professional handball players. Twenty-nine athletes were recruited and randomly divided into two groups. The experimental group (EXP, n = 15) carried out 15 sessions of FRTEO in the leg-press exercise, with 4 set...

Tone as a distinctive feature used to differentiate not only words but also clause types, is a characteristic feature of Bantu languages. In this paper we show that Bemba relatives can be marked with a low tone in place of a segmental relative marker. This low tone strategy of relativization, which imposes a restrictive reading of relatives, manifests a specific phonological phrasing that can b...

This Moro pattern is one of the three noun phrase orders recorded by Greenberg (1963), though he noted that it is somewhat uncommon. Subsequent research has demonstrated that it is mostly found in Bantu languages: Greenberg’s example came from Kikuku, and Carstens (1991) derives this word order in Kiswahili. Many other cases exist. There is general agreement among formal syntacticians that this...

However, there are also many languages in which it is possible to have noun phrases in which there is no noun or pronoun, in which the only constituents of the noun phrase are words that otherwise occur as modifiers of nouns. For example, in the example in (1) from Nkore-Kiga, a Bantu language spoken in Uganda, the subject omuto ‘young’ is a word that normally functions in the language as an ad...

This paper aims at investigating Subcategorizations of derived verbs in Kifipa. Kifipa is a Bantu language spoken south-west Tanzania by the people denoted to as Wafipa. Wafipa live bigger area between Lake Rukwa and Tanganyika. Currently, located region. Verbs are subcategorized differently different languages. In isolating languages, verb subcategorization syntactic study while languages morp...

Text-setting patterns in music have served as a key data source the development of theories prosody and rhythm stress-based languages, but been explored less from rhythmic perspective realm tone languages. African languages especially under-studied terms text-setting, likely large part due to ill-understood status metrical structure prosodic prominence asymmetries many these Here, we explore ho...

Settling an Old Debate In their article “Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals,” Grollemund et al. (1) have accomplished more than just their stated intention: to identify the role of habitat in channeling the directions of the early Bantu farming settlement of the African equatorial rainforest. What is most important is that the authors essentially br...

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