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:
Syntax and Grammar Description

Data Management

Speech Analysis and Phonetics

Phonology and Morphology

Syntax and Grammar Description

Lexicon

Text Analysis

Language Survey and Comparison

Syntax and Grammar Description

PC-PATR is intended for modeling syntactic analysis and parsing. Rook is used for developing a syntactic corpus and grammar description.

PC-PATR

Unification-based syntactic parser.

• Systems supported: MS-DOS, Windows, UNIX, Macintosh
• Current version: 0.99 beta 5
• Developer: Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Distributor: Academic Computing Department, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas, TX, USA, tel. (972) 708-7414, fax (972) 708-7363.
• Price: Free if downloaded from the URL below
• URL: http://www.sil.org/pcpatr/

Rook

System for authoring descriptive grammars in HyperCard for the Macintosh.

• Systems supported: Macintosh, HyperCard required
• Developer: J. Randolph Valentine, e-mail jrvalent@facstaff.wisc.edu.
• Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org. Ask for NOAM diskette 2.2.8. Also available electronically via the URL below.
• Review: Valentine, J. Randolph. 1992. "Rook", Notes on Apple Macintosh 1(4):5-20 [Waxhaw, NC: Summer Institute of Linguistics].
• Price: Free if downloaded from the URL below
• URLs:

  ftp://ftp.sil.org/software/mac/rook101_sea.hqx

  http://www.sil.org/ftp/software/mac/rook101_sea.hqx