Extract phonological phylogenetic characters from aligned data
Project description
phonechars
phonechars
is a Python library and command-line tool
for extracting phonological phylogenetic characters from aligned lexical data,
both for purposes of investigation into correspondence sets and phylogenetic
analyses.
Installation
In any standard Python environment, phonechars
can be installed with:
pip install phonechars
How to use
The library can be conveniently used by means of the phonechars
command-line
tool. While different options are available, a simple call to the program
when provided the path to a wordlist of aligned data
will generate three files with related information:
- A
.chars.tsv
file, extending the alignment information with correspondences inferred by means of different methods (currently, only a method modified from List (2019) and available via thelingrex
library is offered) - A
.corrs.tsv
file, informing the detected correspondences - A
.nex
(NEXUS) file, suitable for analysis with standard phylogenetic tools including SplitsTree and BEAST2
A demo file, with information from Ryukyuian dialects as presented in Huisman (2022), is distributed with the standard installation and can be used for testing the command-line tool:
$ phonechars demo/ryukyu.tsv
Community guidelines
While the author can be contacted directly for support, it is recommended that third parties use GitHub standard features, such as issues and pull requests, to contribute, report problems, or seek support.
Contributing guidelines, including a code of conduct, can be found in the
CONTRIBUTING.md
file.
Author and citation
The library is developed by Tiago Tresoldi (tiago.tresoldi@lingfil.uu.se). The library is developed in the context of the Cultural Evolution of Texts project, with funding from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (grant agreement ID: MXM19-1087:1).
If you use phonechars
, please cite it as:
Tresoldi, Tiago, (2022). Phonechars: a Python library for extracting phonological phylogenetic characters. Version 0.1. Uppsala, University of Uppsala. https://github.com/tresoldi/phonechars
In BibTeX:
@misc{Tresoldi2022phonechars,
url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03173},
year = {2022},
author = {Tiago Tresoldi},
title = {Phonechars: a Python library for extracting phonological phylogenetic characters. Version 0.1},
address = {Uppsala},
publisher = {University of Uppsala}
}
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