alparc 0.0.4

Artificial languages with rhythmicity, phonological, and acoustic controls

ALPARC

This is code for our work The ALPARC Toolbox: Artificial Languages with Phonological and Acoustic Rhythmicity Control

Setup

The following describes how you can set up the software and run the experiments from the paper.

Install Package

The simplest is to clone this repository and install ALPARC in editable mode:

pip install -e .

If you want to use ALPARC as a package, you can install it directly from git with

pip install git+https://github.com/milosen/alparc.git

Run the code from the paper

Clone this repository. Install jupyter

pip install jupyter

If you use a virtual environement, you also need to install the ipython-kernel:

python -m ipykernel install --user --name=alparc

In this case, don't forget to select the alparc kernel in the jupyter session's kernel option (Kernel -> Change kernel -> alparc).

Start jupyter

jupyter notebook

and select the notebook you want.

1. publication/data_and_stats_from_the_paper.ipynb reproduces the data for the figures and the appendices of the paper
2. publication/plots_from_the_paper.ipynb reproduces the figures in the publication
3. Optional: If you want to generate or diagnose your own data, please have a look at the tutorial on how to use the command line tool: workshop/00_basic_command_line_usage.ipynb. This notebook shows how to use the command line tool alparc to generate data and run the analysis. You can also use the command line tool directly from the terminal. The tool can be run with alparc --help
4. Optional: If you want to adapt ALPARC to your own research needs, you'll probably want to take a closer look at the library, or even the internals of the toolbox. More notebooks on that can be found in ALPARC's Workshop Directory

Citation

Please cite our work as

@article {Titone2024ALPARC,
	author = {Titone, Lorenzo and Milosevic, Nikola and Meyer, Lars},
	title = {The ALPARC Toolbox: Artificial Languages with Phonological and Acoustic Rhythmicity Control},
	elocation-id = {2024.05.24.595268},
	year = {2024},
	doi = {10.1101/2024.05.24.595268},
	publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
	URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2024/05/24/2024.05.24.595268},
	eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2024/05/24/2024.05.24.595268.full.pdf},
	journal = {bioRxiv}
}