Vowel System Sandbox: Complex System Modelling of Language Change. Issue 1 (25th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fulop, Sean A.; Scott, Hannah
• Is Part Of: Journal of open research software. Volume 7:Issue 1(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019-03-25
• Subjects: language change -- agent-based modelling -- vowel systems -- complex systems -- Python; Computer software -- Reusability -- Periodicals; Open source software -- Periodicals; 005
• DOI: 10.5334/jors.198
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2049-9647

Abstract

Vowel System Sandbox is a complex agent-based modelling tool which is intended for linguists and speech researchers to test hypotheses about how vowel sounds are transmitted and used through the generations in a language community, and thus how vowel systems may change over generational time. Written in Python 3, the code repository is on Github and can be run in Linux, Windows 7+ and MacOS. This is the first software that provides a computational model of sound change in language by implementing first principles of speech perception and production.