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Phonology Template Editor and Search Tool (PTEST)

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The Phonology Template Editor and Search Tool was developed to assist with the phonological analysis of a Bantu language. The program:

  • generates a phonology report;
  • carries out various types of searches of phonetic data;
  • serves as an interactive environment for writing and editing a phonology paper;
  • generates an electronic publishable report (HTML formatted) from a generated phonology report;
  • interfaces with Speech Analyzer;
  • allows creation of user-defined phonology reports;
     

Version

1.31

Developer

Kent Schroeder

Supported

free
email author

SIL Status

Experimental

Supported Operating Systems

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Unicode Support

Yes

Suitable tasks

  • LINGUISTICS
  • Store and edit an electronic notebook of language data in a form conducive to analysis
  • Identify all sounds in the phone inventory and disambiguate ambiguous sequences
  • Organize all phonemes into an inventory and find contrasting pairs to support this analysis
  • Analyze stress, intonation and tone
  • Identify syllable structure templates and verify that the data corpus does not violate them
  • Organize a phonology sketch for publication
  • Work with lexical data arranged by root (root-based rather than stem-based)
  • Publish linguistic data (e.g. phonetic data and interlinear texts)

Interface Language

English

License

Freeware (all uses)

Download Page

Website

User Group

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Question

1. Can it interact with Fieldworks data? 2. How does it compare with Phonology Assistant?

Fieldworks data

Not directly like PA does. It imports SFM files only