phono_edit_distance¶

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