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Apertium linguistic data for Uyghur
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Vowel Harmony-ى #5

Open koghuzhan opened 6 years ago

koghuzhan commented 6 years ago

ى still causes problems with vowel harmony, especially when it interacts with special characters.

MemduhG commented 6 years ago

Is this completely unpredictable or is it limited to certain kinds of situations/words? (e.g. like loanwords behaving erratically).

koghuzhan commented 6 years ago

It's more about the interaction of special characters I think. For example ئۆيلىرىمىزگە is the correct surfacing form of öyl{A}r{i}miz{G}{A} but the machine predicts ئۆيلىرىمىزغە (the vowel is correct but the consonant is [+back]) I am guessing {A} which undergoes a vowel reduction to become ى confuses the machine, or it could simply be that the twol rules don't go all the way back to the initial ۆ to make the inflections [-back].

Is there a way we could assing hidden values to ى?