Built-in Analyses

Built-in analyses combine a query, calculations, and a report for a particular research goal. Open an analysis from the Analyses menu or from the analysis library in a project window.

Analysis groups

General measures
Consistency Analysis, Consonants, Inter-transcriber Agreement, Measure of Cluster Proximity, Phonological Mean Length of Utterance, and Index of Phonetic Complexity.
Inventories
Phone Inventory counts phones and Word Inventory counts orthographic words in the selected data.
Matches
CV Pattern Match, Stress Match, Syllable Count Match, and Tier Match compare selected properties of paired target and actual data.
Percent correct
Percent Phones Correct, Percent Diacritics Correct, and Percent Number Tones Correct.
Phonological processes
Phonological Processes provides presets for coronal backing, deaffrication, deletion, devoicing, fricative stopping, glottalization, lateralization, liquid gliding and vocalization, velar fronting, and voicing, plus a custom process.
Specialized analyses
Multisyllabic Non-linear Analysis, Phone Clusters, Vocalization, Word Match, and Word-level Analysis of Polysyllables.

Run an analysis

Built-in analyses combine data selection, analysis, and reporting in one breadcrumb wizard. The exact option pages depend on the selected analysis.

The wizard opens on the Sessions & Participants page. Check the sessions and participants to include, then select Next.

Figure 1. Analysis Wizard — Sessions & Participants
Analysis Wizard — Sessions & Participants

The Parameters page configures the settings specific to the selected analysis. Select Next to run it.

Figure 2. Analysis Wizard — Parameters
Analysis Wizard — Parameters

The Report page displays the generated report and any processing messages once the analysis completes.

Figure 3. Analysis Wizard — Report
Analysis Wizard — Report

Use the report buffer toolbar or context menu to save the report as HTML or export its tables to CSV or a spreadsheet. To combine or customize analyses before running them, use the Analysis Composer.