Useful Linguistic Links
Hiram on Academia.edu: nanyang.academia.edu/hiramring
Hiram on GitHub: github.com/lingdoc
Websites
Ethnologue: www.ethnologue.com
World Atlas of Language Structures online:
wals.info
World Phonotactics Database: phonotactics.anu.edu.au
Linguistics resource links (by
SuperSummary): www.supersummary.com/linguistics-education-guide/
Working with sound files and
annotation
Praat for analyzing waveforms: www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat
Transcriber 1.5.1 for time-alignment: sourceforge.net/projects/trans/files/transcriber/1.5.1
Toolbox for glossing and inter-linearizing:
sil.org/computing/toolbox/information.htm
ELAN for annotating and linking sound/video
with time-aligned text: tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan
Andrew Margett’s online tool for converting
Transcriber files to Toolbox/ELAN: linguisticsoftwareconverters.zong.mine.nu
My (Hiram’s) tool for offline conversion of
Transcriber files to Toolbox/ELAN: github.com/themadafrican/trs2txt/releases
My other tool for converting Toolbox txt
files into subtitles: github.com/themadafrican/txt2srt/releases
Audacity for editing sound files: audacity.sourceforge.net
MPEG Streamclip for editing/re-coding
video: www.squared5.com
Media Converter for quick drag/drop
re-coding of audio and video (Mac): media-converter.sourceforge.net
Rewrap2M4V for re-wrapping .MTS files to
.M4V (Mac): See
this thread
RewrapAVCHD for re-wrapping .MTS, .M2TS and
.M2T files to .M4V files (Mac): on
MacUpdate
SoX command line utilities: sox.sourceforge.net
Bill Poser’s tutorials on using SoX for
linguistics: billposer.org/Linguistics/Computation/SoxTutorial.html
Formatting and
typesetting
Word for Linguists (Susanna Cumming): linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/cumming/WordForLinguists/Index.htm
LaTeX for Linguists (Doug Arnold): www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/latex4ling
LyX (LaTeX front-end graphical editor): lyx.org
Corpus tools
R and RStudio for statistical analysis: http://www.rstudio.com
ToolboxSearch (Taras Zakharko) for creating
an R-searchable corpus directly from
Toolbox: https://bitbucket.org/tzakharko/toolboxsearch/overview
Keyboards and
Fonts
IPA Fonts: scripts.sil.org
IPA Unicode Keyboards: scripts.sil.org/UniIPAKeyboard
Ukelele keyboard manager for Mac: scripts.sil.org/ukelele
Below is a zipped folder of sound files that I used in a Praat workshop. You can download the workshop guide on my Academia.edu page (linked above). The file below also contains scripts that you can find on my GitHub page.