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Article published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 24:4 (2019) ► pp.522–535

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Phonological CorpusTools

Software for doing phonological analysis on transcribed corpora

 | University of British Columbia
 | University of British Columbia
 | University of British Columbia
Published online: 1 November 2019
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Abstract
Phonological analysis increasingly involves the quantification of various lexical and/or usage statistics, such as phonotactic probabilities, the functional loads of various phonemic contrasts, or neighbourhood densities. This paper presents Phonological CorpusTools, a free, open-source software for conducting such phonological analyses on transcribed corpora. The motivations for creating the software are given, along with an overview of the structure of the program, its analysis algorithms, and its applications within phonology.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Types of corpora
  • 3.Corpora, transcriptions, and features
    • 3.1Transcriptions and inventories
    • 3.2Using tiers
  • 4.Analyses and output
  • 5.Applications and access
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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