getTurnType: getTurnType: return type of turn

In vocaldia: Create and Manipulate Vocalisation Diagrams

getTurnType: return type of turn

Description

Identify turn types

Usage

getTurnType(
  df,
  i,
  individual = FALSE,
  nodecolumn = "speaker",
  noPauseTypes = F
)

Arguments

df	a data frame consisting, minimally, of a column for vocalisation/pause start times, a column for end times, and a column identifying the speaker, speaker role or 'Floor' (for silences).
i	the identifier (index number) whose type will be returned
individual	if TRUE, return the identifier, a Pause or Grp
nodecolumn	the name of the column containing the node (speaker) name (e.g. 'speaker', 'role').
noPauseTypes	if TRUE, ignore distinctions between pauses (SwitchingPause, GrpSwitchingPause, etc)

Details

Return one of Vocalisation, GrpVocalisation, ... or identifier.

Value

a string containing the turn type or identifier.

Examples

data(vocdia)
atddia[1:10,]
getTurnType(atddia, 3, nodecolumn='role') ## a vocalisation
getTurnType(atddia, 4, nodecolumn='role') ## a pause

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