EXMARaLDA (Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation) is a set of free software tools for creating, managing and analyzing spoken language corpora. It consists of a transcription tool (comparable to tools like

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), a tool for administering corpus meta data and a tool for doing queries ( KWIC searches) on spoken language corpora. EXMARaLDA is used for doing

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and

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and research into first and second

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in children and adults. EXMARaLDA is based on the open standards

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and

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and programmed in

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References

* Schmidt, Thomas and Wörner, Kai (2014). "EXMARaLDA" In: ''Handbook on Corpus Phonology''. Oxford University Press, 402-419. * Schmidt, Thomas and Wörner, Kai (2009). "EXMARaLDA – Creating, analysing and sharing spoken language corpora for pragmatic research." In: ''Pragmatics 19''. * Schmidt, Thomas and Bennöhr, Jasmine (2008). "Rescuing Legacy Data." In: ''Language Documentation and Conservation 2'', 109–129.

External links

exmaralda.org
- Official project website
std.metu.edu.tr
- Website of the METU Spoken Turkish Corpus, a corpus constructed with EXMARaLDA {{DEFAULTSORT:Exmaralda Free science software Phonetics Phonology Free audio software Linguistic research software