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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