calc_freq_of_alt

corpustools.freqalt.freq_of_alt.calc_freq_of_alt(corpus_context, seg1, seg2, algorithm, output_filename=None, min_rel=None, max_rel=None, phono_align=False, min_pairs_okay=False, stop_check=None, call_back=None)

Returns a double that is a measure of the frequency of alternation of two sounds in a given corpus

Parameters

corpus_contextCorpusContext

Context manager for a corpus

seg1: char

A sound segment, e.g. ‘s’, ‘t’

seg2: char

A sound segment

algorithm: string

The string similarity algorithm

max_rel: double

Filters out all words that are higher than max_rel from a relatedness measure

min_rel: double

Filters out all words that are lower than min_rel from a relatedness measure

phono_align: boolean (1 or 0), optional

1 means ‘only count alternations that are likely phonologically aligned,’ defaults to not force phonological alignment

min_pairs_okay: bool, optional

True means allow minimal pairs (e.g. in English, ‘s’ and ‘t’ do not alternate in minimal pairs, so allowing minimal pairs may skew results)

stop_checkcallable, optional

Optional function to check whether to gracefully terminate early

call_backcallable, optional

Optional function to supply progress information during the function

Returns

double

The frequency of alternation of two sounds in a given corpus