Praat scripting notes

Language units large and small Marked forms of words - Inflection, Derivation, Declension, Conjugation · Diminutive, Augmentative Groups and categories and properties of words - Syntactic and lexical categories · Grammatical cases · Correlatives · Expletives · Adjuncts Words and meaning - Morphology · Lexicology · Semiotics · Onomasiology · Figures of speech, expressions, phraseology, etc. · Word similarity · Ambiguity · Modality · Segment function, interaction, reference - Clitics · Apposition· Parataxis, Hypotaxis· Attributive· Binding · Coordinations · Word and concept reference Sentence structure and style - Agreement · Ellipsis· Hedging Phonology - Articulation · Formants· Prosody · Sound change · Intonation, stress, focus · Diphones · Intervocalic · Glottal stop · Vowel_diagrams · Elision · Ablaut_and_umlaut · Phonics Speech processing · Praat notes · Praat plugins and toolkit notes · Praat scripting notes Analyses, models, software - Minimal pairs · Concordances · Linguistics software · Some_relatively_basic_text_processing · Word embeddings · Semantic similarity Unsorted - Contextualism · · Text summarization · Accent, Dialect, Language · Pidgin, Creole · Natural language typology · Writing_systems · Typography, orthography · Digraphs, ligatures, dipthongs · More linguistic terms and descriptions · Phonetic scripts

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Scripting.html

Unsorted

scripts look like wording, but you won't understand why it works until you figure out the predefined things it's referencing

Consider:

Create Strings as file list: "*.wav"
num_files = Get number of strings
for i from 1 to num_files
  selectObject: "Strings files"
  filename$ = Get string: i
  basename$ = filename$ - ".wav"
  Read from file: dir$ + basename$ + ".wav"
endfor

Why does "Get number of files" or "Get String" work?

Get is a little magical

• Get mean...

Create Strings as file list... list 'source_directory$'/'file_name_or_initial_substring$'*'file_extension$' head_words = selected("Strings")