sakan811 / stress-pattern-occurrence-in-english-words

This project is intended to provide English learners with data that allows them to make a data-driven guess when encountering words that they aren't sure where to stress

Stress Pattern Occurrence in English Words

Project Latest Update: 26 July 2024

The stress pattern was based on The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

The cmudict module from the NLTK library was used to extract the stress pattern from the dataset.

The English words dataset was based on the SubtlexUS dataset.

Disclaimers

According to what is mentioned on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary website, "Stress is difficult to get right and people disagree about it."

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Visualizations Latest Update: 6 May 2024

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Codebase Details

Test Status

To Run the Script to Get the English Words' Stress Pattern data

• Execute main.py
  • Data is loaded to a local SQLite database automatically.
    • A local SQLite database is created automatically if not exist in the given path.
    • You can change the path by adjusting this variable:

      db = 'eng_stress_pattern.db'
      

stress_pattern_finder Package

eng_stress_pattern_finder.py

• Find the stress pattern of the English words with the given dataset.

stress_pattern_etl Package

extract_data.py

• Extract data from SubtlexUS dataset.

transform_data.py

• Transform data to find a syllable count and stress pattern of each English word.
  • Words that aren't in the dictionary will be filtered out.

load_to_sqlite.py

• Load data to SQLite database tables.

Database Details

Tables:

• StressPattern
  • Store syllable count, stress pattern, and primary and secondary stress position of each word

Sources

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
“SubtlexUS” dataset: http://www.lexique.org/?page_id=241