maniphono 0.1

Python library for the symbolic manipulation of phoneme representations

maniphono

Python library for the symbolic manipulation of phoneme representations

Installation

In any standard Python environment, maniphono can be installed with:

$ pip install maniphono

Example usage

>>> import maniphono
>>> snd1 = maniphono.Sound(maniphono.IPA, "p")
>>> snd1
voiceless bilabial plosive consonant
>>> str(snd1)
'p'
>>> snd2 = snd1 + "voiced,alveolar"
>>> str(snd2)
'd'

TODO:

• Add disjoint contraints to model.py
• Consider expanding checks in model.parse_constraints() to evaluate non-shallow constraints (from different layers); this is not such a problem for the data as it is, because graphemes will be rejected if necessary, but it would be nice to have such a check in the function (it involves building a tree of contraints, which is interesting and potentially useful in itself)
• Consider adding option in model.py to Unicode-normalize graphemes