Package ca.phon.ipa.alignment.pmlu

Class PMLU

java.lang.Object

ca.phon.ipa.alignment.pmlu.PMLU

@Extension(PhoneMap.class)
public class PMLU
extends Object

Implements "Phonological Mean Length of Utterance" (Ingram 2002) calculation for PhoneMaps.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PMLU(PhoneMap phoneMap)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	actualPMLU()	Calculate actual PMLU.
PhoneMap	getPhoneMap()
float	PWP()	Calculate PWP = actualPMLU()/targetPMLU()
int	targetPMLU()	Calculate target PMLU.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

PMLU

public PMLU(PhoneMap phoneMap)

Method Details

getPhoneMap

public PhoneMap getPhoneMap()

targetPMLU

public int targetPMLU()

Calculate target PMLU. PMLU is calculated as the number of segments in the target transcript plus the number of consonants.

Returns:

target PMLU

actualPMLU

public int actualPMLU()

Calculate actual PMLU. PMLU is calculated as the number of segments in the actual transcript plus number of target-like consonants.

Returns:

actual PMLU

PWP

public float PWP()

Calculate PWP = actualPMLU()/targetPMLU()

Returns:

pwp