https://github.com/clefourrier/conlangplg
[LT4HALA 2020] Phonetic lexicon generator and sound change applier
https://github.com/clefourrier/conlangplg
conlang lrec lrec2020 lt4hala
Last synced: 11 months ago
JSON representation
[LT4HALA 2020] Phonetic lexicon generator and sound change applier
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/clefourrier/conlangplg
- Owner: clefourrier
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2020-03-23T09:12:28.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-31T09:58:35.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-10T15:07:16.236Z (12 months ago)
- Topics: conlang, lrec, lrec2020, lt4hala
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 50.8 KB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
# Conlang Phonetic Lexicon Generator
Phonetic lexicon generator and sound change applier - used in `Comparing Statistical and Neural Models for Learning Sound Correspondences`, a LT4HALA 2020 workshop paper (LREC 2020)
# How to
## Test this repo
Run the main.py file, which will generate a protolanguage and 3 children, stored in the output folder.
## Use this repo for your languages
### 1) Generate your sound changes
Add your sound changes to a new file.
A sound change has the following shape: `origin_phones/new_phones/context`
- Phones:
- A phone in lowercase represents itself. V means vowel. C means consonnant. A comma separates two groups of phones.
- For example, eC,Vj means "all 'e' followed by a consonnant, all 'j' preceded by a vowel".
- The comma means "and" in the origin_phones (`this phone group and this one will be transformed to...`) and "or" in the new_phones (`the transformation can go to this phone group or this one` - the choice between the groups is done by the rule_change_applier).
### 2) Generate your sound inventories
To generate your own sound inventory, copy the \_default.json file and add your phones in the correct categories.
- Phones
- The mandatory phones will be present in your inventory
- A random subset of your phones will be drawn from the possible phones catagory
- Phonotactics
- The syllable_number must be the distribution of the possible syllable numbers for your language
- [1, 1, 2] means that 2/3 of the words have one syllable and 1/3 have 2 syllables
- Clusters
- These must contain the possible letter clusters for initial, final, and middle (other) clusters in words.
- A phone in lowercase represents itself. V means vowel. C means consonnant. P means plosives. O means obstruent. S sonorant
- You must provide a list of lists of combinations
- Here, "initial": [["Vs"], ["ast", "est", "ist"]], the algorithm will randomly pick one list to begin a word, and one item from that list. It means that a word has 1/2 chance of beginning by a vowel followed by "s", 1/6 by "ast", 1/6 by "est" and 1/6 by "ist".
### 3) Edit and run main
If you need more inspiration, go see the provided files called italic.txt in sound_changes and italic.json in sound_inventories. When you are satisfied, edit the main file, so it picks your new configuration files, and run it.
# To use, cite
```
@inproceedings{fourrier20,
TITLE = {{Comparing Statistical and Neural Models for Learning Sound Correspondences}},
AUTHOR = {Fourrier, Cl{\'e}mentine and Sagot, Beno{\^i}t},
BOOKTITLE = {{Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), LT4HALA Workshop}},
ADDRESS = {Marseilles, France},
YEAR = {2020},
NOTE = {(to appear)}
}
```