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Specializations => Phonetics and Phonology => Topic started by: katie333 on January 28, 2014, 07:44:37 PM

Title: new to phonetics
Post by: katie333 on January 28, 2014, 07:44:37 PM

Hi
I am new to phonetics.
I need some help understanding PRAAT and using it to analyze etc.
Is this a good forum for this?
thanks in advance

Title: Re: new to phonetics
Post by: Daniel on January 28, 2014, 11:16:59 PM

There should be a lot of tutorials available online. You can certainly ask questions here, but knowledge of specific points could be limited, depending on what exactly you need. For the basics I expect we can help, and the rest depends on exactly what you're looking at.

Title: Re: new to phonetics
Post by: ibarrere on January 29, 2014, 03:46:09 AM

The learning curve for that software is a bit steep, the interface is certainly not intuitive.

This particular document (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/corpora/material/PRAAT_workshop_manual_v421.pdf) is helpful without being too long. Take a look there for information on how to get started.

Title: Re: new to phonetics
Post by: katie333 on January 29, 2014, 05:48:10 AM

thank you
I will take a look and be back with questions I am sure!