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CAS LX 522 Syntax I
Some internet resources

This is where internet-accessible resources relating to the class will go...

The PsyScript project home page.

The PsychToolbox project home page.

The PsyScope home page.

  • And its prohibitively expensive sibling E-Prime (so far, Windows only).
  • Some other program called Presentation (claims to be free for two more years)

The ACS Software help page, to show you what's available with your BU ACS account.

The CHILDES project home page.

Some very basic information about searching CHILDES on a Macintosh without the aid of the somewhat opaque CMU CLAN program, courtesy of Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park)

Language Science Research Group (Washington University, St. Louis) website. Has some transcripts and sound files available, apparently focused on child-directed speech.

The Trees home page (free 30-day demo, $25 after that, so hold off on downloading it unless we decide to use it). Colin Phillips put together some instructions (U. Del specific, slightly outdated).

The Syntax Student's Companion, a Java applet for drawing trees. I got it to go by typing "java -cp SSC.jar SSCFrame" from the Mac OS X Terminal. There's Mac Classic version that runs as a double-clickable application, and of course, it's in Java, so it works on practically anything Java runs on. Trees seems a little bit more automated.

Another Java applet for tree drawing is LingTutor.

Colin Phillips' Psycholinguistics course labs page; some of the lab ideas may be borrowed from here.

SignStream page.

Praat page.

WaveSurfer page.

OTSoft page (appears to be PC only).

Wayne Cowart's spreadsheet page for the Experimental Syntax book.

Some corpus linguistics links.

Home page for Using Computers in Linguistics (Routledge 1999).

For the moment I'm just collecting some freeware (preferably) links here to useful programs for Windows, so I don't forget where I got them. I'll add more.