Chapter 6
Multilingual data coding and analysis within Phon
A practical demonstration
Research on multilingualism or based on multilingual speech data poses unique methodological
issues, for example concerning the annotation of language-specific phenomena within data records involving multiple
languages and/or speakers. To support this type of research, how can one build a unique corpus of data that can be
analyzed either as a whole or on a language-by-language basis? The Phon software program provides a number of
solutions to address such challenges. This paper demonstrates how to build and analyze data transcripts in ways that
make possible both language-general measures of speech as well as language-specific ones.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The PhonBank project
- 2.1Database building and data sharing
- 2.2Phon
- 3.Analyzing multilingual data within Phon
- 3.1Key concepts and related functions in Phon
- 3.2Variation and the time dimension
- 3.3Time alignment and transcription
- 3.4Queries, reports, and analyses
- 4.Illustrations
- 4.1Phonological analyses
- 4.2Illustration 1: Phone-level alignment
- 4.2.1Phones query
- 4.2.2Reporting
- 4.3Illustration 2: Word-level alignment
- 4.3.1Morphological annotations and the aligned word filter
- 4.3.2Processing results beyond Phon reports
- 4.4Illustration 3: Group-level alignment
- 4.4.1Language annotations and the aligned group filter
- 4.4.2Further methods and resources
- 5.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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