The {linguistics} tag can be used for questions about packages designed primarily for linguists or about typesetting of linguistics-specific material.
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Using TikZ to depict intonation
I am looking into using TikZ to represent pitch patterns over a phrase or sentence (intonation).
I've got it to produce some useful results, already, as in the attached MWE (although in 1.1 the ...
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Any nice packages for word alignment?
I want to visualize word alignments between sentence pairs, where the positions of aligned words may differ between the sentences, and a word in one sentence may be aligned to more than one word in ...
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Using TeX for writing papers on linguistics
I wish to write a paper about linguistics, so I thought about trying LaTeX. Sadly I couldn't figure out how to write the unique characters I need for my work, for example epsilon with a little tilde ...
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Creating new characters from existing ones
In a nutshell. Is there a relatively easy way of building characters out of parts of existing ones?
Rationale. (La)TeX linguists’ need for a wide palette of characters—for example, ⟨ɳ⟩ (U+0273), ⟨ɲ⟩ ...
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TiKZ make lines connecting nodes have the same endpoints
Using the MWE below:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree-compat}
\usepackage{ textcomp }
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\Tree [
.TP [ ...
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How can I draw arrows between words in linguistic examples?
This is what I'm after: I'd like to have the sentence 'John loves his mother.' displayed with an arrow running from 'his' to 'John'. I looked at gb4e, but I found the documentation confusing and I ...
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How to draw syntactical trees with parallel leafs for a natural language?
I need to draw syntactical trees for a natural language. The problem is that I need all the leafs to be parallel. How the other nodes are sorted in relation to the other at the same depth is not ...
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Bracketed Sentences
I am trying to achieve an effect similar to this book in diagramming sentences.
Is there a package for achieving that? I can place all the brackets and subscripts manually, mixing math and text, but ...
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Section based linguistic example numbering with brackets
I would like to have examples in my document look like this:
Section 2
(2.1) This is an example.
This is a reference to example (2.1).
That is:
the section number appears both next ...
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Combining lmodern and tipa
When I use tipa and lmodern in the same document, I always get a couple of font substitution warnings. The document looks fine, though. Is there any way around this?
Minimal example:
...
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Numbered examples in linguistics that I can refer back to
I do linguistics and I'm looking for a way to enumerate language examples that lets me reference to them in the text.
(1) This is an example.
Sentence \ref{...} provides a good example of ...
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Why does \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} take over?
I want to produce a document with non-serif type. I also want to include Cyrillic characters. These two aims seem to be mutually exclusive. When I comment out \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}, the document ...
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Edged arrows with tikz-qtree
I've seen this nice little example tree drawn with LaTeX, afaik not tikz. Can I draw similar arrows with tikz-qtree by specifying start and end point only?
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tikz-qtree: curved lines & multiple parent nodes
I am quite new to LaTeX, and I am stuck with a problem Google can't seem to help me with.
Basically, I need some hand holding in doing something that is more complicated than my skills can handle at ...
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Printing interlinear translation: how to mix automatically two paragraphs, printing lines alternately
I am writing a document on a foreigh language, say French, and want to put some paragraphs in French with their translation in English. But I would like to print one line in French, the corresponding ...
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Representing linguistic text annotations in LaTeX
I'm writing a document describing the semantics of opinion phrases in English, and in order to do so, I'm annotating particular spans of text as having particular semantic functions within the ...
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Using expex across pages
I am using the expex package to align two types of text, doing it as if it were a gloss, and it works fine. There is one problem, though: Many of the texts I'm working on are longer than a page, and ...
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Using TikZ to depict pitchlevel
After the very productive outcome of my recent question on intonation, I'm emboldened to ask a related question. In the previous one, particular pitchlevels are connected to produce an intonation ...
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Positioning of numbers in gb4e.sty examples
I'm planning to use the following numbered examples in a document (see example below). I would like the number to be at the top of the example, but for the ones with diagrams it ends up in the middle. ...
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Accessing IPA characters when using Charis SIL
When using Charis SIL, how do I access IPA characters? Are there handy macros, as with tipa.sty? If I have to set up my own encoding using unicode numbers, how is this best done? (Code from those ...
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Matching phonetic/IPA font for Minion Pro
I am (tentatively) using Minion Pro in XeTeX for my book, but I need to typeset a phonetic notation, for which Minion Pro does not have the glyphs. Are there any good alternatives that can match it?
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How to create syntactic trees and align them in LaTeX?
I want to create syntactic trees and align them in LaTeX as in the picture below.
Can you help me?
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How can I use the same parameter for \Tree and \exi
The qtree package permits drawing syntactic trees with a syntax like this:
\ex. \Tree [.S [.NP This ] [.VP [.V is ] [.NP an example ]]]
The linguex package typesets bracketed expressions with a ...
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Splitting examples in gb4e
I would like to split examples in the \usepackage{gb4e} to get explanatory remarks as close to the explained item as possible. Usually, my typeset examples are looking like this:
(1) blabla
(2) a. ...
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Keep example number together with floating table
I am using the package linguex (for 'linguistic examples') to number the examples in my text, using its command \ex.
I am creating a table that I am numbering with this command \ex.:
\ex. ...
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Manchu and Mongolian script
I am trying to write a document including Manchu script on a Mac. Manchu is written with the Mongolian alphabet with the addition of some diacritics, but the extra diacritics are included in standard ...
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Uralic phonetic alphabet or UPA – unusual diacritics
I am writing a linguistics MA thesis in LaTeX, and I will possibly need to use the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, for example in glossing environments. What would be the best way to do this? I've seen ...
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Labeling linguistic examples with language information
I'm writing a linguistics paper that uses a large amount of linguistic examples from a wide variety of languages, using the gb4e package. I want to be able to label each example with information about ...
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IPA characters in plain TeX
Is there a way to type IPA characters in TeX? There is the tipa package for LaTeX, but what about plain TeX? I don't have any experience with installing fonts in TeX and can't find any good resource ...
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Lining up leaf nodes in pstree
I am a TeX newbie, trying to make a syntax tree. What I'm going for is this:
X
/ \
X \
/ \ \
X \ \
/ \ \ \
X \ \ \
/ \ \ \ \
A B C D ...
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Arrows in tikz-qtree with symbols in node names
I have a syntax tree with angle brackets to represent movement:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\Tree [
.TP [
.T' \node{T+verb}; [
.vP \qroof{`ana}.DP [
.v' ...
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adding a node to a qroof in tikz-qtree
I need a node in the head element of a qroof in tikz-qtree (using tikz-qtree-compat). I need the 'np' to be a node so I can draw an arrow to it. However, the following breaks:
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Expex glosses get broken when unicode-math is loaded in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
I'm trying to typeset multiline numbered examples with John Frampton's expex package (version 4.1). Since I'm using XeLaTeX (TeXLive 2012), I've picked unicode-math to typeset maths. The ...
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\psmatrix baseline
I'm using lingmacros' \enumsentence with a \psmatrix inside.
\enumsentence{
\psset{linewidth=.5pt}
\begin{psmatrix}[rowsep=.2cm,nodesep=.05cm,colsep=.1cm]
&\rnode{gm}{grammatical morphemes}\\
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Can I remove the last leaf line in tikz-qtree?
I've got
\Tree [.CP [.TP [.NP [.D the ] [.N woman ] [.CP [.TP [.NP [.N who
] ] [.VP [.V stole ] [.NP [.D my ] [.N necklace ] ] ] ] ] ] [.VP
[.V entered ] ] ] ]
which gives me a nice tree, but the ...
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Use arbitrary amount of underlines + descriptions using TikZ on parts of words
This is an extension of this question. In linguistics, word analyses are often necessary and I think that TikZ is an excellent tool to bring some life, color, and most of all clarity to the scene. I ...
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How to balance binary branches and repair shorthand triangles in LFG style c-trees using tikz-qtree
I have modified the example from the tikz-qtree documentation to form this LFG style c-tree, but am having difficulty balancing the binary branches in general, and the IP branches and roof/triangle DP ...
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Nodes within leaf text in tikz-qtree?
I'm trying to draw a box around only part of the text in a tikz-qtree tree, but the closest I can do is this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree}
\begin{document}
...
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Conflict between babel and university style sheet
I am a Linguistics PhD student at U.Florida, writing my dissertation. The LaTeX class from our editorial office conflicts with babel (among other packages). Is there a way to override the style sheet ...
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On syllabic trees
I have to typeset some syllabic trees. They look like this:
I’m currently using the qtree package to typeset them, but I can’t figure out how to put all the last letters on the same level — like ...
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How do you write aspirated consonants?
I am working on a linguistic topic and need to be able to describe phones with aspiration. As described in wikipedias article on Aspirated consonants there is a UTF8 character for the diacritic of ...
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Is there a symbol for Dark 'l' (ɫ)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
Dark 'l' (ɫ) is an IPA symbol for a velarized alveolar lateral approximant. I've tried \l, which gives the similar, but not correct, Polish ł ...
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Representing semantical relations with TikZ
What is the best way to draw those two semantical relations with TikZ? I’ve seen it in a paper describing relations within wordnets.
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Dimension too large with tikz-qtree
I want to draw a tree with tikz-qtree, but it bails with Dimension
too large.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{tikz}
...
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Type a interlinear text, bi or tri-lingual
I need to do an interlinear text. If I understood the problem correctly, I need a macro or format that will treat each word as a three-story fraction. Top store, a number reference, mid store one ...
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lingmacros alignment causes compile failure
Without & for alignment, it works perfectly fine.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lingmacros}
\begin{document}
\enumsentence{\shortex{3}
{Taroo$_i$-ga Yo$_j$-o zibun$_{i/*j}$-no ...
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Demonstrating syntax of a sentence [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to draw syntactical trees with parallel leafs for a natural language?
Consider page 4 in following paper: Pantcheva 2007
Which package can be used to draw a ...
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How can I underline multiple parts of the same word using braces with TikZ?
UPDATE: I opened a related question here.
I work in the field of linguistics and I sometimes need to analyze prefixes, affixes, and suffixes in words. It would be nice to be able to add notes to ...
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Incompatibilty between siuintx and linguex?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
Foo
\end{document}
This MWE produces a plethora of error messages, regardless of the order in which those two ...
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Filtering font substitution warnings caused by the combination of lmodern and tipa
This question is a follow-up to Combining lmodern and tipa: I tried to filter the harmless warnings that occur when using tipa with the Latin Modern font. Doing so crashes both pdflatex and regular ...
