Humans Who Read Grammars

A typical recording situation from my own fieldwork.  Melenesa (my research assistant) and Ta'alolo (one of my informants) in Neiafu-Tai village on Savai'i, in Samoa. Keeping on the theme of linguistic fieldwork (see Jeremy's previous post about his fieldwork experiences here here and Jesse's post about measuring nasality with earbuds here) , I've also got something for you! Two colleagues of mine in the Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity project, Eri Kashima and Mark Ellison, have figured out a neat way of saving time on segmenting up sound files for transcription. Linguistic fieldwork is so much more than just the time spent in the field site, when you come home there's a lot of work that needs to be done with annotating your files, segmenting them up and in different other ways preparing them for the analysis you want to do. Yours truly, handling transcription files in ELAN in her office in Coombs, Canberra. One thing that takes a lot of time, a...

***POST-EDIT*** This post has been made into a "page" available at the top menu. Updates will be made there for your convenience. 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 corp...