Multilingual phonological corpus analysis

The tools behind the PhonBank Project

Yvan Rose

In this chapter, I describe the PhonBank database initiative within the larger CHILDES project. After a brief introduction to these inter-related database systems, I move the focus on the types of corpus annotations and analyses which we support within PhonBank, through the Phon software program. Phon greatly facilitates a number of tasks required for the analysis of phonological development. It supports multimedia data linkage, unit segmentation, multiple-blind transcription, automatic labelling of data, and systematic comparisons between target (model) and actual (produced) phonological forms. Building on this description, I then provide a practical illustration in the context of a multilingual study of phonology, taking as an example the analysis of data on the phonological adaptation of linguistic borrowings (loanwords).

Published online: 15 November 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.14.27ros

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Rose, Yvan

2020. In Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 10], ► pp. 249 ff.

Rose, Yvan & Carol Stoel-Gammon

2015. Using PhonBank and Phon in studies of phonological development and disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 29:8-10 ► pp. 686 ff.

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