Word

class corpustools.corpus.classes.lexicon.Word(**kwargs)

An object representing a word in a corpus

Information about the attributes are contained in the Corpus’ attributes.

Attributes

spellingstr

A representation of a word that lacks phonological information.

transcriptionTranscription

A representation of a word that includes phonological information.

frequencyfloat

Token frequency in a corpus

Methods

__init__(**kwargs)
add_abstract_tier(tier_name, tier_segments)	Add an abstract tier to the Word
add_attribute(tier_name, value)	Add an arbitrary attribute to the Word
add_tier(tier_name, tier_segments)	Adds a new tier attribute to the Word
enumerate_symbols(tier_name[, reversed])
get_len(tier_name)
initDefaults()
remove_attribute(attribute_name)	Deletes a tier attribute from a Word
update(old_word)
variants([sequence_type])	Get variants and frequencies for a Word