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Specific Programs
BARLOW HYPERCARD STACKS
Simple interactive exercises for introductory course: Indo-European roots,
exploring the relationship of PIE, Latin, Greek, and English; Grimm's Law;
three morphology problems, comparative reconstruction of Polynesian; American
English phonemic transcription; recognition of vowel of American and British
English.
Basic Linguistics: Phonetics.
A Windows-based program on CD-ROM written with Authorware that allows
the user to learn English phonetics. Sound files, animation, and extensive
hyperlinks help the student to systematically learn the sounds of English
and how to transcribe them. The module concludes with review tests and a
final test that can be printed out and turned in to the instructor. With
1004 recorded words, each time the student takes the test, it is a new experience.
This is the first module of a planned full course in Basic Linguistics.
- Systems supported: Windows
- Developer/Distributor: John McLaughlin, 434 West 100 North,
Brigham City, UT, 84302, USA, tel. (214-)709-24045, fax (214-) 709-2433.
mclasutt@brigham.net
- Price: US $10.00
CG Laboratory [Categorial Grammar]
DCG Laboratory [Definite Clause Grammar]
PATR Laboratory
PSG Laboratory [Phrase Structure Grammar]
A group of programs for writing grammars in a form which can be manipulated
by students to explore formal grammars. It helps the student understand
the relationship between strings, rules and trees, and to grasp parsing,
generation, ambiguity, and recursion.
- Systems supported: Systems supported: Macintosh
- Developer/Distributor: Linguistic Instruments, Department of
Linguistics, University of Göteborg, S-412 98 Göteborg, Sweden.
li@ling.gu.se .
- Price: $40 each (single user)
CONC
A concordance program for the Macintosh specially designed for linguistic
analysis. Conc produces keyword-in-context concordances of texts. The sorting
order is defined by the user. The user can restrict which words will be
included in or excluded from a concordance on the basis of frequency, length
of word, inclusion in a list, or pattern matching. Conc can concord both
flat text files and multiple-line interlinear texts produced by the IT program.
Can also produce letter (character) concordances to facilitate phonological
analysis.
- Systems supported: Macintosh
- Developer/Distributor: John V. Thomson. International Academic
Bookstore, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas, TX, USA, tel. (214)709-24045,
fax (214) 709-2433. academic.books@sil.org
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- Price: $4 in North America and $6 overseas
- Review:
- Bauer, Christian. 1992. "Review of Conc", Literary and
Linguistic Computing 7(2):154-156.
- URL: http://www.sil.org/computing/conc/conc.html
EDW
A speech display and editing program for preparing stimuli in speech
perception experiments and as an aid in the acoustic analysis of digitised
utterances. A spectrogram based on the waveform can be displayed along with
the waveform itself. EDW has no built-in capability to digitize speech and
relies on other programs to create the waveform files it is used to edit.
Several auxiliary programs are included for basic acoustic analysis and
measurement and for manipulating X-Ray Microbeam data.
- Systems supported: MS-DOS ; Sun
- Developer/Distributor: H. Timothy Bunell, Applied Science and
Engineering Labs., Alfred I. duPont Institute, 1600 Rockland Rd., Wilmington,
DE, 19899. bunnell@asel.udel.edu
.
- Price: free
- URL: ftp://asel.udel.edu/pub/spl
ETHNOLOGUE
An on-line database of basic information about most languages in the
world. It can be searched by language name, country or linguistic affiliation.
GRAMMAR AND TREES
A HyperCard stack containing a context free phrase structure parser and
a tree drawing routine for students to explore context free phrase structure
grammars, and particularly to see the relationship between rules and trees.
Some sample exercises are included.
- Systems supported: Systems supported: Macintosh
- Developer/Distributor: Christopher Culy, Linguistics Department,
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. chris-culy@uiowa.edu
- Price: $10 .
GTU [Grammatik-Text-Umgebung]
Tutorial software in computational linguistics. The program takes a given
sentence, parses it, and displays its PS-tree.
- Systems supported: MS-DOS
- Developer/Distributor: Martin Volk, Institute of Computational
Linguistics, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Rheinau 34, W5400
Koblenz, Germany. martin.volk@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
The Interactive Introduction to Linguistics
An interactive introduction to general linguistics, covering phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and other
topics. The authors recommend that it be used as a supplement to a course,
not as a substitute for a course. Audio support. Available in English and
German.
Introduction to Linguistics
Several stacks for use in an introductory class in linguistics, including
phonetic transcription, phonological features, and acoustics. Hypercard.
IT [Interlinear Text]
A tool for building a corpus of analysed texts. The analysis is embodied
in user-defined annotations which are displayed in a form that is unsurpassed
for clarity of presentation--the form of interlinear, aligned text. IT also
manages the database of lexical information derived during the analysis
of texts.
K-TEXT
KTEXT is a text processing program that uses PC-KIMMO to do morphological
parsing. KTEXT reads a text from a disk file, parses each word, and writes
the results to a new disk file. This new file is in the form of a structured
text file where each word of the original text is represented as a database
record composed of several fields. Each word record contains a field for
the original word, a field for the underlying or lexical form of the word,
and a field for the gloss string.
- Systems supported: MS-DOS, Macintosh, UNIX
- Developer/Distributor: Evan Antworth, Academic Computing Department,
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas, TX,
75236, USA. evan@sil.org
- Price:
Language Games
A variety of on-line language games for first-year students in linguistics.
The Lexicon
The Lexicon is an on-line set of exercises. providing practice in breaking
English words into morphemes and in drawing trees assigning the structures
of words using tree diagrams.
LingNet Resources.
Offers on-line introductory linguistics and historical/comparative linguistics
instruction to institutions of higher learning and to individuals. The courses
are conducted using Utah State University's SyllaBase on-line instruction
engine and only require that the student have regular access to a computer
with an adequate browser installed. The courses are conducted asynchronously.
- Systems supported: Windows
- Developer/Distributor: John McLaughlin mclasutt@brigham.net
- Price: US $250 for an individual student, or based on
enrolment for a university course.
- Contact LingNet Resources, 434 West 100 North, Brigham City,
UT, 84302, USA.
- http://dmrd.usu.edu/lingnet
Linguistic Fun
Linguistic Fun is an on-line collection of short discussions of a variety
of topics useful for a first-year class.
LX Problems
A series of programs for introductory linguistics, covering phonetics,
phonology, morphology, dialectology, and sociolinguistics. The problems
combine sound and graphics to bring the user into close contact with the
phonetics and culture of a particular dialect of a language. Analytical
problems use a variety of computational techniques to lead the student to
the correct solution. The program stores each action taken by the student
in a separate file so that teaching assistants can review students' progress
and problems. Hypercard.
- Systems supported: Macintosh
- Developer/Distributor: William Labov, Linguistics Laboratory,
Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1106 Blockley Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
labov@central.cis.upenn.edu
MacLex
Creates and maintains a lexicon.
PC-KIMMO
Program for computational phonology and morphology. Typically used for
testing morphological descriptions by relating lexical and surface forms.
Takes two files - a rules file specifying the phonologic rules of language,
and a lexicon file with glosses and morphotactic constraints - and takes
the lexical form and produces the surface form or takes the surface form
and produces the lexical form with its gloss.
- Systems supported: MS-DOS, Macintosh, UNIX
- Developer/Distributor: David Smith, Gary Simons, and Stephen
McConnel. International Academic Bookstore, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas,
TX, USA, tel. (214)709-24045, fax (214) 709-2433.
- Price: $24
- URL: http://www.sil.org/pckimmo/
Phono
Phono is a software tool for developing and testing models of regular
historical sound change. An ordered set of sound-change rules is tested
either on a data file or interactively. It is accompanied by a model for
Spanish.
Phthong
Hypercard stack for teaching phonemic transcription, using a graded set
of cards introducing material in a cumulative fashion. First the transcription
is from a phonemic transcription to ordinary English orthography, then from
English orthography to phonemic transcription. Reviews and other exercises
are also used. A setup module allows instructors to customise the transcription
to fit their preferences or dialect area.
Signalyze
An acoustic analysis program. It allows digital speech signal editing,
analysis, and manipulation. It includes multiple window display and zoom.
It includes three types of pitch analysis; a variety of spectral analyses
including Fourier analysis with several bandwidths, linear predictive coding,
and cone kernal analysis; and cepstral analysis. Further functions include
exportable data scoring, arithmetic and transcendental transformations,
power and RMS envelopes, down- and up-sampling, derivative differences,
and zero-crossings. Several sound formats are supported.
SPEECHLAB
An introductory course on phonetics, explaining acoustics, physiology
and spectrography interactively, with a complete lexicon of German/American
speech sounds, with videos, anatomical illustrations, acoustic analysis
and detailed description of each sound, and a bibliography of 4000 items.
STAMP
Tool for adapting text from one dialect to another.
SYNTACTICA
A program for exploring grammars (phrase structure and lexicons) and
the structures they generate. It generates syntactic trees using phrase-structure
rules and lexicon.
Tarski's World
A program teaching modern logic. Allows students to build three-dimensional
worlds and to describe them in first-order logic.
UMich Phonetics Training Tools
An ensemble of Hypercard stacks to assist beginning students of phonetics
in associating symbols, sounds, and production. Includes sound files, animated
vocal tracts, and X-ray movies for each speech sound. Can be accessed through
an IPA-table interface or by manipulating a vocal tract on screen. Also,
an IPA training game and a testing module, in which students are tested
on their ability to associate IPA symbols, static vocal tract shapes, and
physiological descriptions.
WinSAL-V
A speech analysis program allowing recording, segmenting and playing
of audio and video files in multiple windows. Includes FFT, LPC, cepstrum,
and pitch analysis.
WordSurv
Analyses word lists using lexicostatistics, phonostatistics, and comparative
reconstruction. The program can be used in helping students to identify
tentative comparative series for further testing
A World of Words
Eight stacks about how Indo-European languages have changed over time.
Topics include Grimm's Law, Greek and Latin sounds, Maps and trees, Root
and Branch, a close transcription of a Frost poem, a hypertext version of
the Proöemium of Homer's Iliad. Hypercard.
YOUPIE
Attempts to learn stress system of any language using parametric approach.
Sample words with stress indicated are input; they are first parsed into
syllable and then sent to a stress-learner. The learner attempts to set
the value of stress parameters. If successful, YOUPIE produces a prose description
of the stress pattern of the language.
- Systems supported: MS-DOS
- Developer/Distributor: Elan Dresher, Dept. of Linguistics, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., M5S 3H1, Canada. dresher@chass.utoronto.ca
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