Software Details

Title:	Software Announcement: WordGenerator
Submitter:	Bill Poser
Description:	This is to draw your attention to the release of a mature version of WordGenerator. WordGenerator generates hypothetical words from specifications of their syllable structure. Given the maximum length of the words in syllables, the abstract structure of syllables in the language (in terms of such units as consonants and vowels or onsets and rhymes), and the segments that comprise each abstract class (e.g. the list of onset consonants), WordGenerator generates all of the conforming words. As an alternative, a random sample of specified size may be requested. WordGenerator was originaly devloped for the use of field linguists desirous of checking the exhaustiveness of their lexical data. Other uses include: construction of datasets for problems, exploring the combinatorics of words, simulation of lexica, and constructing artificial languages. WordGenerator is Free Software and runs on all major platforms including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. http://billposer.org/Software/WordGenerator.html.
Linguistic Field(s):	General Linguistics Language Documentation Phonology
LL Issue:	18.996
Date Posted:	02-Apr-2007