syllabify: Syllabify

In syllabifyr: Syllabifier for CMU Dictionary Transcriptions

Description

This will take a transcription as input, and return it as a data frame.

Usage

syllabify(pron, alaska_rule = T)

Arguments

pron	The CMU dictionary pronunciation, either as a vector, or a string with labels separated by spaces
alaska_rule	Don't maximize onset on lax vowel + s sequences

Value

Returns a data frame with the following columns

syll

A numeric index for each syllable

part

What part of the syllable each phone belongs to

phone

The phone label from the transcription

stress

The syllable stress

Examples

# String input
syllabify("AO0 S T R EY1 L Y AH0")

# Vector input
syllabify(c("AO0", "S", "T", "R", "EY1", "L", "Y", "AH0"))

# Hiatus
syllabify("HH AY0 EY1 T AH0 S")

# Deficient transcriptions (has warning)
syllabify(c("M"))

Example output

# A tibble: 8 x 4
   syll part    phone stress
  <dbl> <chr>   <chr> <chr> 
1     1 nucleus AO    0     
2     2 onset   S     1     
3     2 onset   T     1     
4     2 onset   R     1     
5     2 nucleus EY    1     
6     2 coda    L     1     
7     3 onset   Y     0     
8     3 nucleus AH    0     
# A tibble: 8 x 4
   syll part    phone stress
  <dbl> <chr>   <chr> <chr> 
1     1 nucleus AO    0     
2     2 onset   S     1     
3     2 onset   T     1     
4     2 onset   R     1     
5     2 nucleus EY    1     
6     2 coda    L     1     
7     3 onset   Y     0     
8     3 nucleus AH    0     
# A tibble: 6 x 4
   syll part    phone stress
  <dbl> <chr>   <chr> <chr> 
1     1 onset   HH    0     
2     1 nucleus AY    0     
3     2 nucleus EY    1     
4     3 onset   T     0     
5     3 nucleus AH    0     
6     3 coda    S     0     
# A tibble: 1 x 4
   syll part  phone stress
  <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> 
1     1 onset M     <NA>  
Warning message:
In syllabify_list(pron, alaska_rule) : transcription 'M' is defective

syllabifyr documentation built on Oct. 25, 2020, 1:07 a.m.