Class Pause

java.lang.Object

ca.phon.ipa.IPAElement

ca.phon.ipa.Pause

All Implemented Interfaces:

IExtendable, Visitable<IPAElement>

public final class Pause
extends IPAElement

Represents a pause in an IPA transcription between words. These can be simple pauses, long pauses, very long pauses, or numeric pauses (in seconds). The syntax for these pauses are: - simple pause: (.) - long pause: (..) - very long pause: (...) - numeric pause: (x.xx)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected FeatureSet	_getFeatureSet()	Private method to return the feature set for the IPAElement.
float	getLength()
String	getText()	Get the text for this phone
PauseLength	getType()
String	text()

Methods inherited from class ca.phon.ipa.IPAElement

accept, constituentType, featureSet, getExtension, getExtensions, isDiphthong, overrideFeatureSet, putExtension, removeExtension, segregated, sonority, sonorityDistance, stress, syllableIndex, syllableInfo, tone, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

getLength

public float getLength()

getType

public PauseLength getType()

text

public String text()

_getFeatureSet

protected FeatureSet _getFeatureSet()

Description copied from class: IPAElement

Private method to return the feature set for the IPAElement.

Specified by:

_getFeatureSet in class IPAElement

Returns:

the feature set for the implementing type.

getText

public String getText()

Description copied from class: IPAElement

Get the text for this phone

Specified by:

getText in class IPAElement

Returns:

the phone string