Phonological analysis increasingly involves the quantification of various lexical and/or usage statistics, such as
phonotactic probabilities, the functional loads of various phonemic contrasts, or neighbourhood densities. This paper presents
Phonological CorpusTools, a free, open-source software for conducting such phonological analyses on
transcribed corpora. The motivations for creating the software are given, along with an overview of the structure of the program,
its analysis algorithms, and its applications within phonology.
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