Phonology Assistant

Language Technology

Tools for charting phonetics and phonology

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Tone Analysis

Phonology Assistant expertly sorts lexical items by tone melody and can analyze tone across phrasal utterances, making it a powerful tool for linguists focused on tonal languages.

Tone Analysis

Seamless Source Data Integration

Utilize data transcribed with the Unicode IPA character set from Speech Analyzer, Toolbox, and FieldWorks. Phonology Assistant’s flexibility allows you to integrate multiple data sources effortlessly.

Distribution Charts

Visualize phonetic data with Distribution Charts that track Onset, Coda, and Rhyme occurrences. Save chart definitions for easy re-use, enhancing your efficiency and precision in phonetic analysis.

Distribution Charts

Common Questions

Does using a Community-based Participatory linguistics approach mean that PA is not needed?
The participatory approach gets immediately at conscious native speaker distinctive categories and the phonetics thereof. You might then conclude that PA is superfluous, but even in this case, PA is a great support for the preparation of a phonological sketch/statement.

Does PA work on Linux or a Mac?
You can run Phonology Assistant using Virtual Machine software: Parallels, VMWare Fusion, or VirtualBox are options.

How does PA compare to using Dekereke?
Both programs can do largely the same things but do it in different ways. Dekereke has the data loaded into the program whereas PA gets its data from FieldWorks, Speech Analyzer, or ToolBox.

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