Computer Tools for Phonetic Analysis: LAMSAS

摘要 在过去的五年里，它已经成为可能， 打印语音和操作语音数据上的小COM- 电脑 现在的问题是整合小型计算机工具 充分利用科技进步 这个项目 将为商业软件建立有效的方法， 输入、操作、分析和打印美国语音数据 中南语言地图集上的英语 大西洋各州（LAMSAS）。 主要研究者 应用商业软件显示和打印语音数据， 设计了一种语音数据的数据结构， 商业数据库程序。 150万个回复 LAMSAS数据库需要快速、准确的输入方法 语音数据，现在很难用键盘输入。 有效的方法 将被开发来划分极其可变的字符串， 把语音分类， （数字编码）具有LAMSAS的特性 提供商业高级统计软件包的线人。 最后，将设计方法来整合 文字处理、数据库和统计软件， 供出版用的可供拍照的副本。 方法将是 直接用于语言学家的语音研究，因为 所有的设备和软件都可以以低成本获得， 所有程序都易于移植用于数据库研究。

ABSTRACT In the past five years it has become possible to display and print phonetics and to manipulate phonetic data on small com- puters. The problem now is to integrate small computer tools to take best advantage of technological advances. This project will establish efficient methods for commercial software to enter, manipulate, analyze, and print phonetic data on American English from the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS). The Principal Investigator has applied commercial software to display and print phonetic data, and has designed a data structure for phonetic data with a commercial database program. The 1.5 million responses of the LAMSAS data-base require fast, accurate methods to enter phonetic data, now difficult to keyboard. Efficient methods will be developed to divide extremely variable strings of phonetics into classes in order to correlate the classes (numerically coded) with the characteristics of LAMSAS informants with a commercial advanced statistics package. Finally, methods will be designed to integrate the output of word processing, database, and statistical software to generate camera-ready copy for publication. The methods will be of immediate use to linguists for research on phonetics because all equipment and software is readily available at low cost and all procedures are readily portable for database research.