A length-matched pseudoword for each base word (byte-order processing)

A length-matched pseudoword for each base word (byte-order processing)

Usage

generate_pseudowords(base_words, reference_words, exclude = NULL)

Arguments

base_words

Character vector of words to derive pseudowords from.

reference_words

Character vector (typically the full lexicon) that supplies the bigram statistics and the real word forms to avoid.

exclude

Optional character vector of further word forms no pseudoword may equal, such as low-frequency words the reference lacks. They are trimmed, lower-cased and put in Unicode NFC, as a lexicon's words are, and play no part in the bigram statistics.

Value

A data frame with columns base_word and pseudoword.

Details

The letters substituted in are those the reference words attest, so a Spanish reference lends the generator its accented vowels. A base word in a logographic script, such as Chinese, is refused.