<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">R. Finkel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">O. A. Odejobi</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De Pauw, Guy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gilles-Maurice de Schryver</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lori Levin</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Computational Approach to Yoruba Morphology</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages (AfLaT 2009)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">March</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W09-0704</style></url></web-urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://aflat.org/files/W09-0704.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Association for Computational Linguistics</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Athens, Greece</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25–31</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We demonstrate the use of default default inheritance hierarchies to represent the morphology of Yoruba verbs in the KATR formalism, treating inflectional exponents as markings associated with the application of rules by which complex word forms are deduced from simpler roots or stems. In particular, we suggest a scheme of slots that together make up a verb and show how each slot represents a subset of the morphosyntactic properties associated with the verb. We also show how we can account for the tonal aspects of Yoruba, in particular, the tone associated with the emphatic ending. Our approach allows linguists to gain an appreciation for the structure of verbs, gives teachers a foundation for organizing lessons in morphology, and provides students a technique for generating forms of any verb.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>
