utteranceStatistics {DramaAnalysis}

Utterance Statistics

Description

This method calculates the length of each utterance, organized by character and drama.

Usage

utteranceStatistics(drama, normalizeByDramaLength = TRUE)

Arguments

drama

The dramatic text(s)

normalizeByDramaLength

Logical value. If true, the resulting values will be normalized by the length of the drama.

Value

Returns an object of class QDUtteranceStatistics, which is essentially a data.frame.

See Also

characterNames

Examples

data(rksp.0)
ustat <- utteranceStatistics(rksp.0)

boxplot(ustat$utteranceLength ~ ustat$character,
   col=qd.colors[1:5],
   las=2, frame=FALSE)