Language data management
- ELAN: annotation tool for audio and video recordings.
- SIL Field linguist’s Toolbox: Toolbox is a data management and analysis tool for field linguists. It is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any kind of data.
- SIL FieldWorks: FieldWorks consists of software tools that help you manage linguistic and cultural data.
- SIL LexiquePro: Create and manage dictionaries.
- SIL miscellanea software.
Corpus research
- AntConc: A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.
- ManSeeks: Simple yet fast concordancer in an Electron app.
- Multidimensional Analysis Tagger: The Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT) is a program that replicates Biber’s (1988) Variation across Speech and Writing tagger for the multidimensional functional analysis of English texts, generally applied for studies on text type or genre variation.
- SketchEngine [license needed].
Speech analysis and audio processing
Phonology
- ExperiGen.
- OTSoft: OTSoft is a Windows program meant to facilitate analysis in Optimality Theory and related frameworks by using algorithms to do tasks that are too large or complex to be done reliably by hand.
- Phonology Assistant: it automatically charts the sounds and through its searching capabilities, helps a user discover and test the rules of sound in a language.
- PhonoApps contains computational and learning tools for phonologists.
Behavioural experiments
- Gorilla Experiment Builder [license needed].
- Prolific: Quickly find research participants you can trust [paid service].
- PsychJS: Build online experiments with JavaScript. A tutorial by Kenny Smith.
- PsychoPy: PsychoPy is a free cross-platform package allowing you to run a wide range of experiments in the behavioural sciences.
- Qualtrics: Survey platform [license needed].
- Testable: Solution for behavioural experiments, surveys and data collection [free and licensed options].
Miscellanea
- QGIS: A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System.
- Splits Tree: computing phylogenetic trees.