Software Details
| Title: | Wordcorr tool for comparative linguistics |
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| Submitter: | Joseph Grimes |
| Description: | Wordcorr, a new tool for research and teaching in comparative linguistics, is now in production release 2.0 for Windows 98/2000/XP. It can be downloaded free from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/wordcorr. The University of Hawai`i at Mānoa's Linguistics department, SIL International, and DataHouse Inc. of Honolulu, collaborated to produce Wordcorr under a grant from the National Science Foundation's Information Technology Research initiative and the Linguistics Program. Wordcorr automates the tedious and risky process of tabulating and managing the sound correspondences used in working out the historical development of natural languages. Data can be input from the keyboard and edited in full Unicode, or imported from other Wordcorr users, spreadsheets, WordSurv, and Palmsurv; they are backed up by exporting the internal Wordcorr database including analyses in zipped XML files that facilitate file sharing, for example by research teams or in linguistics classes. It gives access to all the data, all the time. A more detailed overview will be available soon on http://www.wordcorr.org. |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Historical Linguistics Genetic Classification |
| LL Issue: | 16.233 |
| Date Posted: | 25-Jan-2005 |
