A list of free online tutorials and manuals - Praat, ELAN, R, and FLEx

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 As per a request for a list of free online introductory tutorials and manuals for several linguistic oriented software programs, I here by present, from the frozen depths of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, a list of free introductory tutorials and manuals for Praat, ELAN, R, and a bit on FLEx. I haven’t read them all, but I’ve found some to be very useful over the years. I’ve also shamelessly plugged a few of my own. Please feel free to add to/ remove and/ or modify the listings!
Praat
Homepage
Using Praat for linguistic research – good tutorial by Will Styler
Praat short tutorial by: Pascal van Lieshout
Yes, that's a mouth and an ear
The official massive Praat manual
Links to other manuals
Tutorial for self study: Basics of phonetics and how to use Praat
Hands-on tutorial: Using Praat for analysing a speech corpus – Mietta Lennes
Praat Tutorial and Resources – Jean-Philippe Goldman
Speech analysis using PRAAT – Pranav Jawale
Praat scripting basics – Florian Jaeger
Praat scripting – Antje Schweitzer
PRAAT a tutorial – Ally Esteban

ELAN
Homepage
A short introduction to Transcribing in ELAN – Ingrid Rosenfelder
The official ELAN manual – Maddalena Tacchetti
ELAN linguistic annotator – Birgit Hellwig et al
ELAN linguistic annotator HTML version
Basic ELAN tutorial for MAC users – Mischa Park-Doob
Aligning Text to Audio and Video Using ELAN – Andrea Berez and Joye Kiester
ELAN 1 course from COLANG 2014 – Nicole Rosen and Jesse Stewart
ELAN 2 course from COLANG 2014 – Jesse Stewart and Nicole Rosen

R for linguistic applications
Homepage

Mixed effects model statistics
Linear models and linear mixed effects models in R: Tutorial 1 – a good tutorial by Bodo Winter
A very basic tutorial for performing linear mixed effects analyses – a good tutorial by Bodo Winter
A Novice’s Guide to Understanding Mixed Effects Models – a good tutorial by Katie Drager
A hands-on tutorial on using R for (mostly) linguistics research - Çağrı Çöltekin
The not so beginner’s manual to lme4: Mixed-effects modeling with R – Douglas Bates

Formatting
Very basic tips for manipulating data frames in R for non-programmers – Jesse Stewart
Importing multiple files into R to create a single large data frame – Jesse Stewart

Graphing
Vowel charts in R – Jesse Stewart
Tutorial: ggplot2 – Ramon Saccilotto
Qplot
Quick introduction to ggplot2 – Edwin Chen
Beautiful plotting in R: A ggplot2 cheatsheet - zev@zevross.com
Cookbook for R – O’Reilly

FLEx
Homepage
Official info
An introduction to using FLEx for morphological analysis – Laura Arnold & Darryl Turner
Brief intro
FLEx 1 course from COLANG 2014 - Nathan Eversole and Juliet Morgan

 Latex
The LaTeX for Linguists Home Page - Doug Arnold

 Regular Expressions
egerp for linguists (Unix based) - Nikolaj Lindberg
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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