Welcome to Phonological CorpusTools’s documentation!

Contents:

• About
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Citing PCT
• Introduction
  • General Background
  • Code and interfaces
• Downloading and installing
  • Download
  • Linux / Fallback instructions
  • Local storage
• Loading in corpora
  • Using a built-in corpus
  • Creating a corpus
  • Column-delimited files
  • Running Text
  • Interlinear Text
  • TextGrids
  • Other Standards
  • Creating a corpus file on the command line
  • Summary information about a corpus
  • Subsetting a corpus
  • Saving and exporting a corpus or feature file
  • Setting preferences & options; Getting help and updates
• Example corpora
  • The example corpus
  • The Lemurian corpus
• Working with transcriptions and feature systems
  • Required format of a feature file
  • Built-in transcription and feature choices
  • Using a custom feature system
  • Applying / editing feature systems
  • Edit inventory categories
  • Creating new tiers in the corpus
  • Adding, editing, and removing words, columns, and tiers
  • Classes and functions
• Sound Selection
• Bigram selection
  • Selecting bigrams using the GUI
• Feature Selection
• Environment Selection
  • Segment-based selection
  • Syllable-based selection
• Pronunciation Variants
  • About Pronunciation Variants:
  • Creating Pronunciation Variants:
  • Viewing Pronunciation Variants:
  • Options for Pronunciation Variants:
  • Exporting Pronunciation Variants:
• Phonological search
  • Saving searches
• Phonotactic Probability
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating phonotactic probability in the GUI
  • Classes and functions
• Functional Load
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating functional load in the GUI
  • Implementing the functional load function on the command line
  • Classes and functions
• Predictability of Distribution
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating predictability of distribution in the GUI
  • Classes and functions
• Informativity
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating informativity in PCT
• Kullback-Leibler Divergence
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating Kullback-Leibler Divergence in the GUI
  • Implementing the KL-divergence function on the command line
  • Classes and functions
• String similarity
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating string similarity in the GUI
  • Classes and functions
• Neighbourhood density
  • About the functions
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating neighbourhood density in the GUI
  • Implementing the neighbourhood density function on the command line
  • Classes and functions
• Mutual Information
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating mutual information in the GUI
  • Implementing the mutual information function on the command line
  • Classes and functions
• Transitional Probability
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating transitional probability in the GUI
  • Classes and functions
• Acoustic Similarity
  • About the function
  • Method of calculation
  • Calculating acoustic similarity in the GUI
  • Classes and functions
• Citing PCT and the algorithms used therein
• References
• API Reference
  • Lexicon classes
  • Speech corpus classes
  • Corpus binaries
  • Loading from CSV
  • Export to CSV
  • TextGrids
  • Running text
  • Interlinear gloss text
  • Other standards
  • Frequency of alternation
  • Kullback-Leibler divergence
  • Mutual information
  • Transitional probability
  • Neighborhood density
  • Phonotactic probability
  • Predictability of distribution
  • Symbol similarity
• Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.5.1 Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.5.0 Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.4.1 Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.4.0 Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.3.0 Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.2.0 Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.1.0 Release Notes
  • CorpusTools 1.0.1 Release Notes

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page