Posts

2024

01 Feb: Some notes on LLMs in real-world contexts (Part 1)

2023

18 Nov: Website redesign (markdown + pandoc) 08 Jun: Teaching 'Language and the Computer'

2022

23 Jan: In case you hadn't noticed...

2020

14 May: Automating the coding of implicit motives (Paper announcement)

2019

16 Sep: Computer-assisted syntactic reconstruction 12 Sep: ICAAL 7 Proceedings volume

2018

24 Jul: Fieldwork in Myanmar 21 Feb: Moving to Zurich

2017

03 Dec: Neural Networks: Some lessons from text classification

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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.

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