LINGUIST List 2.377

Friday, 2 August 1991

Qs: Phonetic alphabet, Mac-based experiments

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1. "MICHEL, Phonetic alphabet for French, English
2. Ron Smyth, Mac-based experiments

I started reading the character encoding exchange in the middle, so this
question may have been answered at the very beginning.
My need is rather simple. I would like to be able to use (while in Word-
Perfect 5.1) a program that would enable me to type the phonetic alphabet
symbols corresponding to FRENCH and hopefully (say) English and German...
and then being able to print them from my IBM-PC to an HP Laserjet.
I also want to do data analysis on the phonetic symbols once I've
transcribed a significant amount of text.
I've tried a couple of well-known companies and looked in the back pages of
LANGUAGE but haven't been able to find anything. Surely, there must be
something out there!
Michel Grimaud
Wellesley College

Is anyone familiar with Macintosh-based software for controlling
 psycholinguistic
experiments (sentence reading time, word-by-word reading time in all its
forms, cross-modal priming, etc.)? Do you have comments about the IBM-based
MEL software (I have read reviews, but would like personal comments from
users).
Ron Smyth
smythlake.scar.utoronto.ca