Grouping-Sounds: Data and Code Accompanying the Study "Grouping Sounds into Evolving Units for the Purpose of Historical Language Comparison"

Original study:

List, Johann-Mattis; Hill, Nathan W.; Blum, Frederic; Juárez, Cristian (under review): Grouping Sounds into Evolving Units for the Purpose of Historical Language Comparison. Submitted to Open Research Europe.

Installation

You will need pyedictor and lingpy as outlined in requirements.txt. Install all dependencies with pip as follows:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the Code

To download the database and automatically create the profile, run:

python make-profile.py

To test the profile, run:

python grouping.py

The profile itself can be found in file karen-profile.tsv.

Check Examples in EDICTOR

The file examples.tsv can be readily loaded into the EDICTOR and from there, you can access the new formats that we introduced for grouped sounds.