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Morphological parsers are typically developed for languages without contrastive tonal systems. Ha, a Bantu language of Western Tanzania, proposes a challenge to these parses with both lexical and grammatical pitch-accent [1] that would, in order to describe the tonal phenomena, seem to require an approach with a separate level for the tones. However, since the Two-Level Morphology [3] has proven successful with another Bantu language, Swahili [2], it is worth testing its possibilities with the tonally more challenging Bantu languages.
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Harjula, L. (2006). Morphological Parsing of Tone: An Experiment with Two-Level Morphology on the Ha Language. In: Yli-Jyrä, A., Karttunen, L., Karhumäki, J. (eds) Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. FSMNLP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780885_30
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