--- title: "Tokenise IPA transcriptions" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Tokenise IPA transcriptions} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) ``` ## Basic usage ```{r setup} library(phonetisr) ``` The main function of phonetisr is `phonetise()`. This function takes a character vector with IPA transcriptions and splits them into phones. ```{r} ipa <- c("pʰãkʰ", "tʰum̥", "ɛkʰɯ") phonetise(ipa) ``` The default settings will tokenise each IPA symbol separately, rather than each phone, because by default phonetisr has no concept of "phone". IPA diacritics are then tokenised separately. The user can set `diacritics = TRUE` to automatically tokenise all diacritics with the preceding symbol (will not work of course for diacritics that are placed before the base symbol). ```{r} phonetise(ipa, diacritics = TRUE) ``` For the example words above, using `diacritics = TRUE` suffices. But what if you want more control? You can use the `multi` argument to specify phones that are made of multiple characters. ```{r} ph <- c("pʰ", "tʰ", "kʰ", "ã", "m̥") phonetise(ipa, multi = ph) ``` In some cases you don't want a list of tokenised phones, but a vector where phones are separated by a specified character (like space, or a dot). You can set `split = FALSE` and the default separator (a space) will be used to separate phones in the resulting string. The separator character can be specified with `sep`. ```{r} phonetise(ipa, multi = ph, split = FALSE, sep = ".") ``` ## Using tibbles A common use case of the `phonetise()` function is with tibble columns that have IPA transcriptions. The phonetisr package comes with `kl_swades`, a tibble with 195 Klingon words and their IPA transcription. ```{r kl} library(tidyverse) data("kl_swadesh") kl_swadesh ``` Let's phonetise the `ipa` column. We first want to define multi-character phones. ```{r kl-multi} kl_multi <- c( "pʰ", "tʰ", "qʰ", "tɬ", "tʃ", "qχ", "dʒ" ) ``` Then, we can use `mutate()` to create a new column `phones` with phonetised transcriptions. ```{r kl-phones} kl_swadesh <- kl_swadesh |> mutate( phones = phonetise(ipa, multi = kl_multi) ) kl_swadesh ``` `phones` is a "list" column, so `kl_swadesh` is "nested": see the [Nested data](https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/articles/nest.html) vignette of tidyr. A common operation is to count the number of occurrences of each phone. We can easily do that by first "unnesting" the `phones` column. ```{r kl-unnest} kl_unnest <- kl_swadesh |> unnest(phones) kl_unnest ``` Then we can count each phone with `count()`. ```{r kl-count} kl_unnest |> count(phones, sort = TRUE) ``` And also plot the counts. ```{r kl-count-plot, fig.width=5} kl_unnest |> count(phones, sort = TRUE) |> ggplot(aes(reorder(phones, desc(n)), n)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity") ``` ## Add phonetic features The package comes with a function `featurise()` which takes a vector or list of phonetised words and returns a tibble with counts and phonetic features of the phones. ```{r kl-feat} kl_feat <- featurise(kl_swadesh$phones) kl_feat ``` We can use the info for plotting. ```{r kl-feat-plot, fig.width=5} kl_feat |> ggplot(aes(reorder(phone, desc(count)), count, fill = type)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity") ``` `featurise()` uses the info stored in `ipa_symbols`, which comes with the package. Note that the phonetic features included are only based on the IPA tables: the package is not aware of language-specific features. ```{r ipa-symbols} data("ipa_symbols") ipa_symbols ```