Using
Computers
in
Linguistics:
A Practical Guide

Chapter 6

Software
for Doing
Field Linguistics

Evan Antworth
Summer Institute of Linguistics

J. Randolph Valentine
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Online Appendix:
Language Survey and Comparison


Data Management


Speech Analysis and Phonetics


Phonology and Morphology


Syntax and Grammar Description


Lexicon


Text Analysis


Language Survey and Comparison

Language Survey and Comparison

While various general purpose database management programs and statistical analysis programs could be used for tasks associated with language survey and comparison, there is at least one domain-specific program, namely WORDSURV.

WORDSURV

Menu-driven program for DOS for managing and analyzing language survey word lists and for doing comparative reconstruction.

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This page is part of an online appendix for the book Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide, edited by John M. Lawler and Helen Aristar Dry (Routledge, 1998).

Last modified: January 11, 1999