phono_edit_distance¶
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corpustools.symbolsim.phono_edit_distance.
phono_edit_distance
(word1, word2, sequence_type, features)[source]¶ Returns an analogue to Levenshtein edit distance but uses phonological _features instead of characters
Parameters: word1: Word
Word object containing transcription tiers which will be compared to another word containing transcription tiers
word2: Word
The other word containing transcription tiers to which word1 will be compared
sequence_type: string
Name of the sequence type (transcription or a tier) to use for comparisons
_features: FeatureMatrix
FeatureMatrix that contains all the segments in both transcriptions to be compared
Returns: float
the phonological edit distance between two words