Hello, Following a discussion that began 3 weeks ago I would like to ask a question regarding substitution of letters according to grammatical rules in historical linguistics. I would like to automate the transformation of words according to complex rules of phonology and integrate that script in a visual environment. Here follows the previous thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3c55f9f044c3252f/fe7c2c82ecf0dbf5?lnk=gst&q=evolutionary+linguistics#fe7c2c82ecf0dbf5
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? What function could tag syllables, the word nucleus and the codas? How easy is it to bridge this with a more visual environment where interlinear, aligned text can be displayed with Greek notations and braces as usual in the phonology textbooks? Best regards, Dax Bloom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list