ALINE.segments: Similarity scores of aligned segments
In alineR: Alignment of Phonetic Sequences Using the 'ALINE' Algorithm

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

Return vector of similarity scores for each optimally aligned segment.

ALINE.segments(result, 
	Syllabic = 5, Place = 40, Stop = 50, 
	Voice = 10, Nasal = 10, Retroflex = 10,
	Lateral = 10, Aspirated = 5, Long = 1,
	High = 5, Back = 5, Round = 5, sk=10)

`result`	The value returned from raw.alignment() function, which is a list containing four elements.
`Syllabic, Place, Stop, Voice, Nasal, Retroflex, Lateral, Aspirated, Long, High, Back, Round`	Feature weight used by the ALINE algorithm to determine the phonetic distance.
`sk`	Skip penalty in determining the alignment

This function returns the similarity scores for each pair of aligned segments from the optimal alignment. The sum of these values is equal to the similarity score.

vec

A numeric vector. The length of the vestor is equal to the number of aligned segments. The value of the ith element is the similarity score for that segment pair.

Guowei Sun

  # align words
  result<-raw.alignment(c("watu","dat"))
  
  # print the alignment followed by the sim score 
  # for each pair of aligned segments
  cat(result[[3]],result[[4]],sep='\n') 
  ALINE.segments(result)