{"id":33,"date":"2014-10-02T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2024-08-07T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:54:22","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/help\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q. How do I run Phonology Assistant on a Mac or Linux?<\/strong><br \/>\nA. You can run Phonology Assistant using Virtual Machine software: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parallels<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMWare Fusion<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VirtualBox<\/a> are options.<br \/>\nUsers have also gotten Phonology Assistant to run on <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/phonology-assistant-on-linux-with-wine\/\">Wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Does using a Community-based Participatory linguistics approach mean that PA is not needed?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How does PA compare to using Dekereke?<\/strong><br \/>\nBoth 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/\">FieldWorks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/speech-analyzer\/\">Speech Analyzer<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/toolbox\/\">ToolBox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. When starting Phonology Assistant, it keeps crashing when trying to load the last opened project. How can I get Phonology Assistant to \u2018forget\u2019 what is the last loaded project?<\/strong><br \/>\nA. Holding down the <strong>Ctrl<\/strong> key while Phonology Assistant is starting will cause it not to load the last opened project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. By default, where does Phonology Assistant want to store its project files?<\/strong><br \/>\nA. By default, Phonology Assistant offers to save your project files under a folder called \u2018Phonology Assistant\u2019 in your documents folder (sometimes called \u2018My Documents\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. How do I run Phonology Assistant on a Mac or Linux? A. You can run Phonology Assistant using Virtual Machine software: Parallels, VMWare Fusion, or VirtualBox are options. Users have also gotten Phonology Assistant to run on Wine. Q: Does using a Community-based Participatory linguistics approach mean that PA is not needed? The participatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/phonologyassistant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}