Introduction

Phonex is a pattern matching language for IPA transcriptions. Phonex is used to query IPA transcriptions for sequences of phones based on both segmental and prosodic criteria.

Features include:

• Query based on features. E.g., {fricative}

• Custom phone classes. E.g., \c, \v, \w (consonants, vowels, consonant or vowel respectively.)

• Query based on constituent type. E.g., {fricative}:C (fricative codas)

• Query based on stress. E.g., \c!1 (stressed consonants)

Note: regular expressions are a powerful text searching tool that are available in many applications. An understanding of regular expressions (or regex) is useful for understanding phonex. Regular expression guides can be found here.