ELAN has revolutionised the study of sign language linguistics and gesture
studies, and it's great that increasing numbers of spoken language
researchers are now using it too.
And just to add to Miriam's useful summary (I wasn't aware of Naomi Nagy's
website, so thanks!), there is an A4 guide to get you started on the MPI
website, and the ongoing support from the ELAN team at the MPI for
Psycholinguistics (in Nijmegen, not Leipzig) is excellent. Join the ELAN
emailing list for regular updates and information.

Regards,
Adam

-- 
Associate Professor Adam Schembri
Director, National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language
La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria |  3086 |  Australia
Tel: +61 3 9479 2887 | Fax: +61 3 9479 3074 | www.latrobe.edu.au/nids

Secretary, Sign Language Linguistics Society
http://www.slls.eu/



On 19/02/11 10:15 AM, "[log in to unmask]"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Quite a few people are using ELAN (from the MPI in Leipzig). It also supports
> video transcription.
> 
> One of the things it lets you do is code different levels of lx analysis in
> tiers that are related to the transcription directly and you can export that
> very easily into whatever format you want to keep analysing in (Praat,
> tab-delimited text file, Toolbox... a bunch of others). Naomi Nagy has some
> excellent resources on her Heritage Language web page ­ she's using ELAN for a
> language contact project and the materials for her RAs are distill the curcial
> bits of the enormous Elan user guide, but also take it further in terms of how
> a variationist might want to use the programme. This is standard "best
> practice" for lg documentation and conservation projects (i.e. not just
> English) at this point in time, e.g. recommended for ELDP projects.
> http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/
> http://individual.utoronto.ca/ngn/Resources/resources.htm [go to Transcribing
> for her notes]
> 
> If you are a Mac user, that may be your best option. The Penn LDC also have
> XTrans (which is gorgeous and seems very well suited for phonetic analysis)
> http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/tools/XTrans/
> but this only runs on PCs (maybe Linux, didn't check) at the moment.
> 
> There is also EXMARaLDA from Hamburg which works PC and Mac and Linux.
> http://www.exmaralda.org/en_downloads.html
> 
> I saw a demo of this last week and the search facilities are pretty
> impressive. I was asking about long-term tech support though, and this is a
> bit up in the air. It would be OK through life of your PhD, and it might not
> matter in the long run because it exports into all sorts of formats too.
> 
> chrz, mm
> 
>  
> Miriam Meyerhoff
> Professor of Linguistics
> Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics
> University of Auckland
> Private Bag 92019
> Auckland 1142
> NEW ZEALAND
> 
> ph: (+64) (0)9 373-7599 x 85236
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> From: Variationist List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Roberts
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> Subject: [VAR-L] Transcription Software
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am researching morphosyntactic variation in French for my PhD and have
> recently returned from fieldwork. I am now faced with challenge of
> transcribing all my data and I was just wondering if anyone could recommend
> any transcription software that would facilitate subsequent coding?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nick
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