36.2340, Software: The Vowel Map-o-lator

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-2340. Mon Aug 04 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.2340, Software: The Vowel Map-o-lator

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Date: 01-Aug-2025
From: Roslyn Burns [roslyn.burns at yale.edu]
Subject: The Vowel Map-o-lator


DiversiPHy is pleased to announce a free online vowel plotting tool:
the Vowel Map-o-lator (https://linguisticking.com/VowelMapolator.html)
This tool is intended for students with little to no coding background
such as introductory phonetics students, introductory sociolinguistics
students, or honors/thesis students whose specialty is not in
phonetics. With this tool, students and instructors can easily plot
vowels and update visualizations as parameters in the plot change
(e.g. transform the acoustic representation, label vowel classes or
speakers, color code vowel classes or speakers, estimate vowel spread
in acoustic space, etc.). Students may download their plots for
inclusion as graphics in classroom assignments or term papers.
The input to the plotting tool is a spreadsheet which must be provided
by the students or instructor and must adhere to the format specified
on the website and the Read Me file. If there is an error in the
structure of the spreadsheet, you will receive a browser notification.
The full Read Me is available online and includes information about
the structure of the input data, visualization options, and vowel
transformation/normalization techniques.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics




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