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| Text generation software | Online tools permit the automatic generation of different types of text or linguistic expression, such as | ||||
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Compleat Lexical Tutor | The site www.lextutor.ca
provides linguistic researchers with a large number of different
online programs.
For instance, you can produce keyword lists from any text you paste into a search window in comparison to the balanced Brown corpus, or you can automatically colour-code the words in your text based on their frequency range. |
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| Text variation explorer | The text variation explorer is a tool that allows you to compare two texts with each other with regard to different features such as their use of pronouns. | ||||
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Online surveys | You need to carry out a survey for your linguistics coursework? Then this tool may come in handy: at www.surveymonkey.com, you can create your own free online surveys. | |||
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| Treebank | The Erlangen treebank by Peter Uhrig and Thomas Proisl allows its users to generate dependency treebanks from their own corpora. Since the program is in closed beta version, you need to contact the authors to use the software. | ||||
| Dependency trees | If you just need a few dependency trees (e.g. to illustrate some grammatical phenomenon in your coursework), the online program phpSyntaxTree allows you to generate trees such as the one below very quickly and easily. | ||||
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| Tag Crowd | By copying and pasting a text into an online window in TagCrowd, you can visualize the frequencies of the words as a word cloud containing words of different sizes. | ||||
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Excel formulae | These formulae - which are like programs - can make research easier in many ways - e.g. by retrieving double candidates, comparing two lists for overlap etc. | |||
| Motion charts | Martin Hilpert's motion charts are a dynamic visualization of language change - and truly amazing! The tutorials show you how to create your own motion charts. | ||||
| Phonetics | If you would like to do research in English phonetics, the free software Praat, which has many useful features, may be just what you are looking for: not only does it allow you to work with spectrograms but it also comes with a very detailed beginners' guide. | ||||
| Corpora | More software links - with a focus on corpora - can be found here. | ||||
