Predicting article agglutination in Mauritian (original) (raw)

This paper investigates article agglutination in Mauritian, focusing on factors that favor such linguistic phenomena compared to other French-based Creoles. Utilizing a semi-automatic analysis of a dataset of 8,800 nouns, the study identifies statistical correlations with variables such as frequency of collocation, homophony, substractic influence, syllable count, and vowel harmony. Results indicate that these factors significantly contribute to the understanding and prediction of agglutination, yielding a reliable model with a high accuracy of 88.5% in predicting agglutination based on the identified predictors.