Mbay (Nilo-Saharan)
The Mbay simulation has its own section in the paper. The corpus comprises 4,046 distinct lexical items and is from Keegan's (1996) Mbay-English dictionary. The dictionary was hand-entered into a text file and filtered to exclude proper nouns and loanwords. Mbay is unusual among the world's languages in that it has a heterorganic prenasalized stop [nɟ], as well as homorganic [mb], [nd], and [ŋg]. For more information on Mbay phonology as well as arguments that nasal-stop sequences function as single segments, see Keegan's (1997) grammar of the language.
Simulation data at a glance
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| Simulation name | Initial state Learning Data | Initial state features |
|---|---|---|
| only version | LearningData.txt | Features.txt |
Simulation details for Mbay
| Iteration | Learning Data produced | Features produced | Inseparability | New Segments added | Segments removed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LearningData.txt | Features.txt | [download] [view] | nɟ, nd, mb, ŋɡ | None |
| 2 | No new learning data | No new features | [download] [view] | None | None |
