Using Praat for Linguistic Research

Using Praat for Linguistic Research by Will Styler is a practical guidebook and information package designed to help you use the Praat phonetics software package more effectively in Phonetic or Phonological research. Although it was originally written in the Spring/Summer of 2011 for the 2011 Linguistic Institute’s Praat workshop, it’s now available for anybody who’s interested, and is being updated over time, both as Praat changes and as the author adds new information.

The guidebook itself is an 85+ page compilation of walkthroughs, explanations, and tutorials explaining how to use Praat for a variety of measurements and tasks. Although the guide does start with “basic” tasks like opening sound files, measuring duration, formants, pitch, it also covers more “advanced” tasks like source-filter resynthesis, A1-P0 nasality measurement, formula manipulation of sounds and even Praat scripting.