New version of Phon available

[Yvan Rose]

Dear Info-CHILDES and PhonBank list members,
We are pleased to announce the release of Phon 1.5, which offers a vast
array of improvements over all previous versions of the application. Please
see the Release notes (link below) for a highlight of the most important
changes.

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 Mac OS X, Windows and Unix/Linux platforms, is
fully compliant with the CHILDES/TalkBank XML 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 facilitates data exchange among
researchers and the construction of a shared PhonBank database, which
supports research in all areas of phonological development.

Important links
Links to Phon:
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/phon/
http://phon.ling.mun.ca/phonwiki/

Release notes:
http://phon.ling.mun.ca/phontrac/wiki/phon1_5/ReleaseNotes

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 encouraged to subscribe to the discussion group (no Gmail
account required to subscribe):
http://groups.google.com/group/phon
-To join the group, click on the “Apply for group membership” and follow the
instructions.
-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.

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.

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