At 12:00 AM -0500 1/11/03, Jeffrey Henning wrote:
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>A survey of my own--
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>1. Do you regularly use language-gen software?
>[ ] Yes [X] No {place an X in the appropriate box}
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>2. If yes, which one?
I've used a hand-made form generator written in Perl (thanks, John!) to get a list
of phonotactically acceptable forms for Tepa/Miapimoquitch.
>3. What do you like about the language-gen software you've looked at?
I liked LangMaker; I would have used it if there had been a Mac version (!). The
little program I used was easily tailored to fit the phonotactic patterns I
wanted.
>4. What do you dislike?
Most of the other generators that I've seen have only generated a random subset of
all of the possible forms; I'd like to generate all possible forms and then
pick and choose from there.
>5. What would you all like to see in such software?
I'm not as interested in using this kind of product anymore, but I'd like to see
future software be Mac-compatible as well :-).
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu
"It is important not to let one's aesthetics interfere with the appreciation of
fact." - Stephen Anderson