Phon 4.0.0-alpha.41

Changes since Phon 3.5

Note: This is a pre-release version of Phon 4.0. This version is not feature complete and may contain bugs. Please report any issues to the Phon issue tracker.

Backend File Format Updates

• Major migration to the CHAT transcription system format, affecting how session data is stored and processed
  Sessions created and upgraded to phon 4 will no longer be compatible with previous versions of Phon.

User Interface and Experience Improvements

Editor Navigation and Interaction

• Improved movement between syllabification tiers and text tiers
• Enhanced tab/shift+tab navigation between alignment and text tiers
• Fixed update mechanisms for syllabification component when switching tiers
• Added media playback keyboard shortcuts (F2, Ctrl+Enter, and Ctrl+Space)
• Added a "reset layout" action to the 'more' button
• Reorganized the transcript view toolbar (#277)
• Media player has been embedded into the Transcript view and may be externalized into its own window.
• Redo keyboard shortcut is now Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z
• Play segment keyboard shortcut is now Cmd/Ctrl+Y

Timeline and Interval Tiers

• Renamed 'timeline' and 'timelineTier' to 'intervalTiers' and 'intervalTier' for clarity
• Added Phone intervals as a new user tier type
• Improved tier alignment with the %wor tier
• Enhanced word/phone interval tier updates
• Customized tier alignment with %wor tier

Bug Fixes

• Fixed delete participant functionality (#275)
• Fixed duplicate session issues (#272)
• Fixed WAP (Word-level Analysis of Phonological Patterns) analysis (#278)
• Fixed session links in generated HTML reports
• Fixed issues with shadow projects looking for old properties file
• Fixed issues with GEM content updating when switching tiers

Analysis Enhancements

• Updated numerous phonological analyses to work with the new CHAT format:
  • Word match analysis
  • Tier match analysis
  • Syllable count match analysis
  • Stress match analysis
  • CV pattern match analysis
  • Measure of cluster proximity analysis
  • Consonants analysis
  • Vocalization analysis
  • Phone clusters analysis
  • Multi-syllabic non-linear analysis
  • Added PMLU (Phonological Mean Length of Utterance) analysis
  • Added phonological process analyses

Notes

• Default user preferences will reset for Phon 4 and will no longer affect Phon 3 preferences.
• Application Support folder is now named 'Phon4' and will no longer contain Phon 3 data.
• Default workspace folder will be <user.home>/Documents/Phon4Workspace.

Full Changelog: 3.5.2...4.0.0-alpha.41