DiversiPHy is pleased to announce a free online vowel plotting tool: the Vowel Map-o-lator (https://linguisticking.com/VowelMapolator.html)

This tool is intended for students with little to no coding background such as introductory phonetics students, introductory sociolinguistics students, or honors/thesis students whose specialty is not in phonetics. With this tool, students and instructors can easily plot vowels and update visualizations as parameters in the plot change (e.g. transform the acoustic representation, label vowel classes or speakers, color code vowel classes or speakers, estimate vowel spread in acoustic space, etc.). Students may download their plots for inclusion as graphics in classroom assignments or term papers.

The input to the plotting tool is a spreadsheet which must be provided by the students or instructor and must adhere to the format specified on the website and the Read Me file. If there is an error in the structure of the spreadsheet, you will receive a browser notification. The full Read Me is available online and includes information about the structure of the input data, visualization options, and vowel transformation/normalization techniques.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
Phonology
Sociolinguistics