Software Applications: Windows Vista, Freeware

Toolbox is a data management and analysis tool for field linguists. It is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any kind of data. If you have experience ...

Application - languist - 12/28/2011 - 14:56 - 3 comments

This program keeps track of phonetic data either typed directly in or drawn from one or more data sources (Toolbox, Fieldworks Language Explorer, Speech Analyzer files with transcriptions, and/or XML data that can be tranformed to PAXML). If sound file ...

Application - dhigby - 12/28/2011 - 14:48 - 3 comments

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; serv ...

Application - kent - 12/28/2011 - 14:58 - 2 comments

Adapt It is an automated adaptation tool to adapt text from one language into a related language.  It accomplishes this by memorizing word translations as the user types them, and automatically suggesting them when the word is encountered again.&n ...

Application - dhigby - 12/28/2011 - 10:26 - 1 comment

The BLT makes primer-making simple. It produces a tentative teaching order for graphemes, by conducting two kinds of frequency counts for each grapheme (letter, digraph or consonant cluster to be taught). It makes story-writing with a controlled vocabu ...

Application - kent - 12/28/2011 - 15:02 - 0 comments

Lexique Pro provides a rich browsing experience for lexicons store in an SFM format such as MDF. No import is required (though there is some initial configuration). It also supports the new XML standard, LIFT (Lexicon Interchange FormaT ...

Application - languist - 12/28/2011 - 14:55 - 0 comments

PcPatr Browser This tool makes it much easier to see the results of syntactic parses produced by the PC-PATR program ( http://www.sil.org/pcpatr/ ).  For each sentence, it shows the interlinear result and the syntactic tree.  When o ...

Application - ablack - 12/09/2011 - 13:40 - 0 comments

Parser and Writer for Syntax The Parser And Writer for Syntax Starter Kit is affectionately also called PAWS. As the name of the starter kit indicates, the Parser and Writer for Syntax (PAWS) has two purposes and four outputs: Th ...

Application - ablack - 12/09/2011 - 13:37 - 0 comments

In the FieldWorks suite of applications, Data Notebook was the first major product released, and it's probably the most polished. DN and FLEx have a similar look and feel, but DN is simpler (fewer "moving parts"). As you experience variou ...

Application - languist - 10/27/2010 - 11:24 - 2 comments

OpenCode 3.6 is a tool for coding qualitative data generated from text information such as interviews, observations or field notes. It has been developed to specifically follow the first steps of the Grounded Theory methodology. However, it can of co ...

Application - kwarfel - 06/09/2011 - 16:06 - 0 comments