Phon 1.3 release

[Yvan Rose]

Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the launch of Phon 1.3, which offers a vast  
array of improvements over all previous preview and development  
versions.

Brief description
Phon is a software program that greatly facilitates a number of tasks  
required for the analysis of phonological development. Phon supports  
multimedia data linkage, unit segmentation, multiple-blind  
transcription, automatic labeling of data, and systematic comparisons  
between target (model) and actual (produced) phonological forms. All  
of these functions are accessible through a user-friendly graphical  
interface. Databases managed within Phon can also be queried using a  
powerful search interface. This software program works on both Mac OS  
X and Windows platforms, is fully compliant with the CHILDES format,  
and supports Unicode font encoding. Phon is being made freely  
available to the community as open-source software. It meets specific  
needs related to the study of first language phonological development  
(including babbling), second language acquisition, and speech  
disorders. Phon will facilitate data exchange among researchers and  
the construction of a shared PhonBank database, another new initiative  
within CHILDES to support methodological and empirical needs of  
research in all ares of phonological development.

Important links
Links to Phon and its user manual:
      http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/phon/
      http://phon.ling.mun.ca/phonwiki/
      *Important installation instructions are provided in the manual*

Links to the PhonBank corpora:
      -Corpora in CHAT format:
         http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/PhonBank/
      -Corpora in Phon format:
         http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/PhonBank-Phon/

Discussion group:
Phon users are encourage to subscribe to the discussion group (no  
Gmail account required to subscribe):
     http://groups.google.com/
         (from this site, enter Phon in the search field and follow  
the instructions to join the group)
Group's email address (for message posting): phon at googlegroups.com

Acknowledgments
Funding: Current development of Phon and PhonBank is supported by the  
National Institute of Health. Earlier development of Phon was funded  
by grants from National Science Foundation, Canada Fund for  
Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,  
Petro-Canada Fund for Young Innovators, and the Office of the Vice- 
President (Research) and the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University of  
Newfoundland.

Dictionaries: Built-in dictionaries of pronounced forms were obtained  
from several organizations, to which we are indebted:
     -English: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Speech at CMU):
         http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/speech/
     -French: Lexique Database
         http://www.lexique.org/
     -Catalan and Spanish: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
         http://www.upc.es/

Special thanks: While it is impossible to name everyone who ended up  
being involved in one way or another in this project, we owe special  
thanks to a wonderful group of early adopters and beta testers,  
without whom it would have been much more difficult to produce the  
current software. These include researchers and PhD students from  
Universidade da Lisboa (Laetitia Almeida, Susana Correia, Teresa da  
Costa, Maria João Freitas); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Joan  
Borràs Comes, Ana Estrella, Maria del Mar Vanrell, Pilar Prieto, Jill  
Thorson); Center for Advanced Research in Theoretical Linguistics  
(Helene Nordgård Andreassen, Berit Anne Bals, Bruce Morén);  
Universiteit Leiden (Claartje Levelt); Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen  
(Paula Fikkert, Nicole Altvater-Mackensen); École Normale Supérieure  
(Aliyah Morgenstern, Caroline Rossi), Université Lumière Lyon 2  
(Christophe dos Santos, Sophie Kern); Université Paris 3 (Naomi  
Yamaguchi); Université Paris 10 (Christophe Parisse); and Memorial  
University of Newfoundland (Lindsay Babcock, Christine Champdoizeau,  
Carla Dunphy, Erica Davis, Sarah Knee, Megan Maloney, Ashleigh Noel,  
Erin Swain, Kevin Terry).
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