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'overapplication' of phonological conditioning rule #30

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@AdeebNqo

There is an 'overapplication' (think overgeneration) of a phonological conditioning rule in the isiZulu engine.

The morphological analyses of the word nabezindlu according to ZulMorph (https://portal.sadilar.org/FiniteState/demo/zulmorph/) are as follows:

  • na[SCPT][2pp]ba[PC][14]i[NPrePre][10]zin[BPre][10]ndlu[NStem][9-10]
  • na[SCPT][2pp]ba[PC][2]i[NPrePre][10]zin[BPre][10]ndlu[NStem][9-10]

If we were to use the conditioning rules found in sources [1,2,3] then na-ba-i-zin-ndlu would become nambezindlu in the same way that na-bili becomes nambili. However, the application of the rule in the first case is not correct.

Q: Is there a source that specifies how the rule is constrained?

Sources

  1. M.H. Mpungose's Analysis of the Word-Initial Segment with Reference to Lemmatising Zulu Nasal Nouns
  2. P.E Raper, The Zulu Language, Acta Academia
  3. S. Naidoo, Intrusive stop formation in Zulu: an application of feature geometry theory, Stellenbosch Uni., 2005

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