LINGUIST List 16.233
Tue Jan 25 2005
Software: Wordcorr tool for comparative linguistics
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Wordcorr tool for comparative linguistics
Message 1: Wordcorr tool for comparative linguistics
Date: 19-Dec-2004
From: Joseph Grimes <joe_grimes
sil.org>
Subject: Wordcorr tool for comparative linguistics
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 M?noa'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): Genetic Classification
Historical Linguistics
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