Phonology Template Editor and Search Tool (PTEST)

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	Version 1.3
Developer	Kent Schroeder
Supported	free email author
Supported Operating Systems	Windows XP, Windows Vista
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	http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=116
Website	http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=116
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