pylangacq 0.13.1

PyLangAcq: Language Acquisition Research in Python

Full documentation: https://pylangacq.org

PyLangAcq is a Python library for language acquisition research.

• Easy access to CHILDES CHAT datasets, with both local data loading and direct downloading from CHILDES supported right from your own Python code
• Intuitive Python data structures for flexible data access and manipulation
• Standard developmental measures readily available: Mean length of utterance (MLU), type-token ratio (TTR), and index of productive syntax (IPSyn)
• Powerful extensions possible for other CHAT-based conversational data from TalkBank

Download and Install

To download and install the most recent version:

$ pip install --upgrade pylangacq

To test your installation in the Python interpreter:

>>> import pylangacq
>>> pylangacq.__version__  # show version number

Ready for more? Check out the Quickstart page.

Links

• Source code: https://github.com/jacksonllee/pylangacq
• Bug tracker, feature requests: https://github.com/jacksonllee/pylangacq/issues
• Email: Please contact Jackson Lee.
• Social media: Twitter

How to Cite

PyLangAcq is authored and maintained by Jackson L. Lee.

Lee, Jackson L., Ross Burkholder, Gallagher B. Flinn, and Emily R. Coppess. 2016. Working with CHAT transcripts in Python. Technical report TR-2016-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago.

@TechReport{lee-et-al-pylangacq:2016,
   Title       = {Working with CHAT transcripts in Python},
   Author      = {Lee, Jackson L. and Burkholder, Ross and Flinn, Gallagher B. and Coppess, Emily R.},
   Institution = {Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago},
   Year        = {2016},
   Number      = {TR-2016-02},
}

License

MIT License. Please see LICENSE.txt in the GitHub source code for details.

The test data files included come from CHILDES, and have a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license instead; please also see pylangacq/tests/test_data/README.md in the GitHub source code for details.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG.md.

Setting up a Development Environment

The latest code under development is available on Github at jacksonllee/pylangacq. To obtain this version for experimental features or for development:

$ git clone https://github.com/jacksonllee/pylangacq.git
$ cd pylangacq
$ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
$ pip install -e .

To run tests and styling checks:

$ pytest -vv --doctest-modules --cov=pylangacq pylangacq docs
$ flake8 pylangacq
$ black --check pylangacq

To build the documentation website files:

$ python build_docs.py