Orthographic syllable estimate: the number of maximal vowel runs

Counts the maximal runs of Latin vowel letters after decomposing the word and setting its diacritics aside, so a vowel counts whatever its accent. The vowels of Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Danish, Norwegian and Vietnamese count as those of English, Spanish, French and German do. Hiatus (idea counts 2) and syllabic consonants such as the Czech l in vlk and r in krk stay undercounted.

Usage

count_syllables(word)

Arguments

word

Character vector of word forms.

Value

Integer vector: the estimated syllable count of each word, or NA for a missing word and for a word holding a character outside the Latin script (Chinese, Cyrillic or Greek, for example), where the estimate is undefined.

Examples

count_syllables(c("cat", "table", "beautiful"))
#> [1] 1 2 3