Software Details
| Title: | Phon 1.3 Release |
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| Submitter: | Yvan Rose |
| Description: | Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the launch of Phon 1.3, which offers a vast array of improvements over all previous preview and development versions. Brief Description Phon is a software program that greatly facilitates a number of tasks required for the analysis of phonological development. Phon supports multimedia data linkage, unit segmentation, multiple-blind transcription, automatic labeling of data, and systematic comparisons between target (model) and actual (produced) phonological forms. All of these functions are accessible through a user-friendly graphical interface. Databases managed within Phon can also be queried using a powerful search interface. This software program works on both Mac OS X and Windows platforms, is fully compliant with the CHILDES format, and supports Unicode font encoding. Phon is being made freely available to the community as open-source software. It meets specific needs related to the study of first language phonological development (including babbling), second language acquisition, and speech disorders. Phon will facilitate data exchange among researchers and the construction of a shared PhonBank database, another new initiative within CHILDES to support methodological and empirical needs of research in all ares of phonological development. Important Links Links to Phon and its user manual: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/phon/ http://phon.ling.mun.ca/phonwiki/ *Important installation instructions are provided in the manual* Links to the PhonBank corpora: -Corpora in CHAT format: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/PhonBank/ -Corpora in Phon format: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/PhonBank-Phon/ Discussion Group: Phon users are encouraged to subscribe to the discussion group (no Gmail account required to subscribe): http://groups.google.com/ (from this site, enter Phon in the search field and follow the instructions to join the group). Group's email address (for message posting): phon@googlegroups.com Acknowledgments Funding: Current development of Phon and PhonBank is supported by the National Institute of Health. Earlier development of Phon was funded by grants from National Science Foundation, Canada Fund for Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Petro-Canada Fund for Young Innovators, and the Office of the Vice-President (Research) and the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dictionaries: Built-in dictionaries of pronounced forms were obtained from several organizations, to which we are indebted: -English: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Speech at CMU): http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/speech/ -French: Lexique Database http://www.lexique.org/ -Catalan and Spanish: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya http://www.upc.es/ Special Thanks: While it is impossible to name everyone who ended up being involved in one way or another in this project, we owe special thanks to a wonderful group of early adopters and beta testers, without whom it would have been much more difficult to produce the current software. These include researchers and PhD students from Universidade da Lisboa; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Center for Advanced Research in Theoretical Linguistics; Universiteit Leiden; Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; École Normale Supérieure; Université Lumière Lyon 2; Université Paris 3; Université Paris 10; and Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Phonology |
| LL Issue: | 19.2360 |
| Date Posted: | 28-Jul-2008 |
