On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:03:28 -0800, Dax Bloom wrote: > Is there a way to refer to vowels and consonants as a subcategory of > text? Is there a function to remove all vowels? How should one create > and order the dictionary file for the rules? How to chain several > transformations automatically from multiple rules? Finally can anyone > show me what existing python program or phonological software can do > this?
Have you looked at NLTK? http://www.nltk.org/ The questions you are asking are awfully specific for a general programming forum like this. You might have better luck asking on a NLTK forum, or possibly if you could pose your questions in ways that don't assume extensive familiarity in linguistics ("word nucleus"? "codas"?). Is there a function to remove vowels -- not specifically, but provided you can tell us what characters you wish to treat as vowels, and provided you are satisfied with a fairly simple search-and-replace, this will do it: # For Python 2.x def disemvowel(s): """Quick and dirty disemvoweller.""" tbl = string.maketrans('', '') return string.translate(s, tbl, "aeiouAEIOU") If you want a function that can distinguish between Y being used as a vowel from Y being used as a consonant, you'll need something much more sophisticated -- try the NLTK. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
