Create jTRACE language (phonemic inventory)

Source: R/language.R

Create jTRACE language (phonemic inventory)

jtrace_create_language(
  phonemes = NULL,
  features,
  duration_scalar = NULL,
  allophonic_relations = NULL,
  language_name
)

Arguments

phonemes

Character vector indicating the jTRACE notation of each phoneme. It must be the same length as the number of rows of the matrix or data frame introduced in features. This argument can be left NULL (default) if the matrix or data frame introduced in features has appropriate row names indicating the jTRACE notation of the phonemes.
features

A M x N matrix or data frame (where M is the number of phonemes and N is 7, the number of features) that contains the values of the features (columns) for each phoneme (rows) with a score ranging from 0 to 9.
duration_scalar

Matrix or data frame indicating the values of the duration scalar, with each phoneme as a row and each feature as a column. If NULL (default), all duration values are set to 1.
allophonic_relations

Array or data frame with logical values indicating whether each combination of phonemes is an allophone, with phonemes are rows and columns. If NULL (default), no allophonic relations are specified.
language_name

Name of the language that will be created.

References

Strauss, T. J., Harris, H. D., & Magnuson, J. S. (2007). jTRACE: A reimplementation and extension of the TRACE model of speech perception and spoken word recognition. Behavior Research Methods, 39(1), 19-30.

See also

jtrace_list_languages for listing available languages, and jtrace_get_language for importing a language.

Author

Gonzalo Garcia-Castro gonzalo.garciadecastro@upf.edu

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# first, we create a character vector with the phoneme symbols
p <- c("-", "a", "s", "d", "f", "g", "c") 
# then we create a the features matrix
f <- data.frame(
    bur = c(9, 6, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2),
    voi = c(7, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4),
    con = c(8, 2, 4, 2, 5, 5, 6),
    grd = c(4, 6, 1, 4, 6, 8, 6),
    dif = c(6, 3, 2, 6, 6, 6, 7),
    voc = c(3, 8, 1, 6, 6, 7, 4),
    pow = c(6, 4, 1, 6, 1, 1, 5)
)
# now we create the language
jtrace_create_language(language_name = "my_language", phonemes = p, features = f)
}