Update contextmanagers.py

PhonologicalCorpusTools · Mar 21, 2017 · dd85432 · dd85432
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diff --git a/corpustools/contextmanagers.py b/corpustools/contextmanagers.py
@@ -113,17 +113,17 @@ def get_frequency_base(self, gramsize = 1, halve_edges = False, probability = Fa
 
     def get_phone_probs(self, gramsize = 1, probability = True, preserve_position = True, log_count = True):
         """
-        Generate (and cache) phonotactic probabilities for segments in
-        the Corpus. # <- this doesn't seem right: surely it's just their probability (frequency) in the corpus, not their phonotactic probability? --KCH
-
+        Generate (and cache) probabilities for segments (or strings of segments of gramsize) in
+        the Corpus. 
+        
         Parameters
         ----------
         gramsize : integer
             Size of n-gram to use for getting frequency, defaults to 1 (unigram)
 
         probability : boolean
             If True, frequency counts will be normalized by total frequency,
-            defaults to False # <- doesn't it default to True as defined above? -- KCH
+            defaults to True 
 
         preserve_position : boolean
             If True, segments will in different positions in the transcription
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def get_phone_probs(self, gramsize = 1, probability = True, preserve_position =
         -------
         dict
             Keys are segments (or sequences of segments) and values are
-            their phonotactic probability in the Corpus # <- as above; KCH
+            their probability in the Corpus 
         """
         if (gramsize, preserve_position, log_count) not in self._freq_base:
             freq_base = collections.defaultdict(float)