CP Version History

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CP Version History

This page describes substantial changes made to CP since version 7.1 (published in 1993, distributed in North America by The Psychological Corporation). See the CP Information page for a more detailed description of the program and the analyses it performs.

Changes in CP 9.7.0
Changes in CP 9.6.0
Changes in CP 9.5.0
Changes in CP 9.4.1
Changes in CP 9.2.7
Changes in CP 9.2.6
Changes in CP 9.2.5
Changes in CP 9.2.4
Changes in CP 9.0.3

Changes in CP 9.7.0

CORPUS

Utterance numbering can be shown for all utterances, all except null responses, or only complete and intelligible utterances.

PROPH

Color highlighting during data entry shows when target and transcription forms disagree and distinguishes codes for omitted vowels and consonants.
Revision of the process analysis for the Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns-Third Edition (HAPP-3), based on Hodson (2004).
Default mode for data entry can be changed by pressing space bar.

Changes in CP 9.6.0

PROPH

A new phonological process analysis for the Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns-Third Edition (HAPP-3), based on Hodson (2004).
Revision of the Grunwell (Brief) and Grunwell (Extended) phonological process analyses, based on Grunwell (1987).
Revision of the phonological process analysis for Spanish.
New profile: Word/Process Breakdown shows the phonological processes that were identified in each word in the PROPH data file.
Additional help in coding dialectal forms in the Edit PROPH File module. You can view dialectal variants of any target form, helping to differentiate developmental and dialectal sound changes occurring in the same production.
Search PROPH File module allows searches for correct productions of vowels and error productions of vowels.
Error Breakdown in PROPH Profile is modified to show percentage of substitutions, omissions, distortions, and additions. Omission errors are further delineated as those involving singletons, entire clusters, or cluster elements.

CAP

Utterance Level and Discourse Level codes for the Conversational Acts Profile can be entered directly into transcript files. If included, they are read and tabulated automatically by the CAP program, eliminating the need to enter the codes through menu selection.

Changes in CP 9.5.0

Main Menu

Both long (Windows) and short (DOS) filenames are displayed when files are selected. [This feature does not work under Windows 2000/XP.]
Automatic display of first contextual note (from CORPUS file) or first line of file information (from PROPH file) when files are selected

CORPUS

Revised scheme for creating CORPUS files in three steps: create transcript file, check transcript file (optional), and convert transcript file to CORPUS file
Speakers can be identified by unique letter codes in the transcript text file. These are converted to the standard designations P (for the child, patient, student, etc.) and T (for the therapist, teacher, parent, or other conversational partner of P) when the CORPUS file is created
Both long (Windows) and short (DOS) filenames can be used when creating transcript text files. [This feature does not work under Windows 2000/XP.]

LARSP

New module: Edit LARSP Profile Lets you add or remove LARSP profile tallies from a data file that has been tabulated, thereby correcting errors in the LARSP analysis produced by CP

APRON

Simplified scheme for entering Verb Relation, Other Relation, Argument, and Connective codes

PROPH

New module: Look Up Phoneme Mastery shows which phonemes/clusters should be mastered by an American child of a given age and gender, according to data from the Iowa-Nebraska Articulation Norms Project (Smit, Hand, Freilinger, Bernthal, & Bird, 1990)
Improvement of Sound Accuracy Profile to show those phonemes/clusters expected for a child's age and gender, those fully or partially mastered in the sample, and those not mastered
Improved performance in Adjust for Dialect feature of Edit PROPH File module. Transcription forms are scanned by rule for features of either African American Vernacular English (AAVE) or Spanish Influenced English (SIE). Dialectal forms not identified by rule scan can be added to variants dictionary
Syllable structure changes are shown as part of the phonological process analysis
Both long (Windows) and short (DOS) filenames can be used when creating PROPH files. [This feature does not work under Windows 2000/XP.]

Changes in CP 9.4.1

All Modules

CP documents can be printed using the Windows application Txtprint, allowing printing over a local network or with USB printers, and offering formatting options that improve appearance and reduce paper use

CORPUS

support of Spanish language transcripts for the Index Utterances, Utterance Count, and Word Concordance modules.
separate child and adult dictionaries for transcript tagging

DSS

Black English Sentence Scoring (BESS, Nelson, 1998; Nelson & Hyter, 1990), an adaptation of DSS for use with speakers of African American Vernacular English
automatic comparison of DSS and BESS scores to normative data reported by Lee (1974) and Nelson & Hyter (1990), respectively

LARSP

direct links between profile chart and Search LARSP File module, making it easier to evaluate syntactic productivity

PRISM-L

option to create a lexical index showing semantic fields, the words classified within them, and the utterances in which each word occurs

PROPH

support of Spanish language transcripts for all PROPH modules
automatic coding of target and transcription syllable stress patterns
inventory of transcription stress patterns
analysis of correspondence between target and transcription word shapes
analysis of correspondence between target and transcription stress patterns
automatic comparison of Sound Accuracy data to normative data for American children reported by Smit, Hand, Freilinger, Bernthal, & Bird (1990)
display of homonymous forms and types in Search PROPH File module
analysis of Syllable Structural Level (Paul & Jennings, 1992)
analysis of Phonological Mean Length of Utterance and Proportion of Whole Word Proximity (Ingram, 2001)
expanded phonetic dictionaries for national standard varieties of English: USA-Canada General, Australian, British RP, Scottish, and North American-nonrhotic
dictionaries of variant forms for nonstandard dialectal varieties of English: African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Spanish Influenced English (SIE)

Changes in CP 9.2.7

LARSP, DSS, PROPH

Bug repairs

Changes in CP 9.2.6

CORPUS/SALT

CP Help program (cphelp.exe) can be run as a separate application at the same time as CP
transcript checks of CORPUS and SALT files improved and expanded
Practice SALT Coding module now checks for transcript format errors

PROPH

index feature in PROPH profile display lets you jump to selected sections of the profile

Changes in CP 9.2.5

PRISM-L

option to create a report showing, for each semantic field, the words classified in that field and the utterances in which those words occurred (sample profile)

PROPH

new analysis: Inventory of Vowel Phones (screen shot)
a reorganization of the PROPH profile report that groups together all independent and relational analyses (screen shot)

Changes in CP 9.2.4

General

updated help files that are linked to menus and program operations
"capsule summaries" describing the choices available in key menus (screen shot)

Main Menu

reorganized so that modules for each analysis procedure are grouped into Basic Programs, Further Analyses, and Advanced Operations (screen shot)

Narrative Analysis Procedure (NAP)

a new module for the analysis of cohesive ties in narrative samples, based on the work of Halliday and Hasan (1976), as modified by Halldorson (1993). (screen shot) (sample profile)

CORPUS

automatic checking of CORPUS or SALT formatted transcripts to help identify common transcription errors and problems (screen shot)
import of transcript files in CHAT (MacWhinney, http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/chat.pdf) format
improved import of transcript files in SALT format

LARSP

improved help files, including access to examples that can assist in coding decisions

IPSyn

improved help files that are linked to coding categories
improved utterance search and editing features

DSS

option to construct a table showing, for each sentence, the scores received in the 8 grammatical categories, the sentence point category, and the total score (screen shot)

PRISM-L

option to create a report showing, for each semantic field, the words classified in that field and the utterances in which those words occurred (screen shot)

PROPH

Create age interval files option in the Model Sound Changes module lets you illustrate developmental changes in speech development
In the Create PROPH File module you have the option of coding all words in the file for their syntactic word class. CP derives this information from its syntactic parsing routines.
Adjust for dialect in the Edit PROPH File module lets you store information about dialectal or casual speech sound changes and then apply that information to a data file, automatically adjusting the target phonetic forms
Likely transcriptions in the Edit PROPH File module provides a drop-down menu of transcription forms that reflect likely developmental sound changes
new analysis: Sound Accuracy profile shows the number of correct productions, number of target opportunities, and the percentage accuracy for each consonant singleton and cluster; it also indicates whether phoneme mastery has been achieved according to criteria you specify.
new analysis: table shows the percentage of consonants produced correctly for each feature class, tabulated by position (initial, medial, final, total)
data searches for correct and error productions can be specified by phoneme or by feature class
new analysis: Inventory of Vowel Phones (screen shot)
a reorganization of the PROPH profile report that groups together all independent and relational analyses (screen shot)

Changes in CP 9.0.3

General

expanded help files with key word search
tutorials to help you learn basic program operation
glossary of linguistics terminology available as help file in Main Menu
scrollable displays of profile reports, help files, and other information

Main Menu

additional options in Preferences
file search feature enables you to identify data files containing specific text strings in any or all data locations

CORPUS

a freeware text editor, included with CP, greatly simplifies transcript entry and editing
capitalized words, mazes, and utterance-final punctuation automatically converted into contextual notes
the GCats parser (Channell, 1997), incorporated into CP, automatically generates grammatical tags that are inserted into CORPUS files as contextual notes - these tags improve the accuracy of all CP modules
omitted words and bound morphemes in SALT transcript files automatically converted into contextual notes
filtering of contextual notes to improve transcript readability
new analyses: sentence index, word concordance, compare files, and utterance count
in Windows 95, audio (.wav) files of transcript recordings can be played
Code SALT File automatically generates bound morpheme (slash) codes and identifies grammatical constituents via word codes inserted into a transcript file
Practice SALT Coding allows students to practice bound morpheme and grammatical constituent coding by interacting with CP's automatic parsing routines

PRISM-L

improved default choices based on automatic syntactic parsing
additional editing features, including dictionary lookup, batch recoding, recall of previous choices
dictionary search by word frequency
expanded dictionaries, including phrasal idioms
recall of previous choices during coding

APRON

coding categories can be edited to suit your conceptual or terminological preferences
new module: Productivity Analysis of Early Language (PANEL)
new module: Compare APRON Files identifies discrepancies in coding between two files
new module: Practice APRON Coding provides students with structured coding practice, context-sensitive help, and accuracy feedback

Early Vocabularies

coding data can be edited
new module: Compare Early Vocabularies files identifies discrepancies in coding between two files

LARSP+

improved automatic parsing
additional summary measures: percentage of clauses/phrases by stage, mean sentence complexity - clausal, mean sentence complexity - phrasal, percentage complex sentences, clauses with 2+ expansions, expanded VP, mean syntactic length (MSL, Klee & Fitzgerald, 1985; Klee, 1992), syntactic complexity score (Blake & Quartaro, 1990; Blake, Quartaro, & Onorato, 1993)
analysis of verb transitivity in Verb Valency module
breakdown of error types in Compare LARSP Files module
expanded options for searches of LARSP+ codes and constituent categories
help files linked to individual codes
multiple sets of Error codes that can be selected and edited
new module: Export LARSP Data File sends LARSP profile tallies from multiple files to a tab-delimited text file
new module: Practice LARSP Coding provides students with structured coding practice, context-sensitive help, and accuracy feedback
new module: Productivity Analysis of Early Language (PANEL)
new module: Find Code/Word in File searches LARSP+ data files in current Data Location and locates all occurrences of selected codes or words
new module: LARSP Coding Help searches LARSP+ examples files in a selected location and locates all occurrences of selected codes or words

IPSyn

new module: Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn)
new module: Compare IPSyn Files identifies discrepancies in coding between two files

DSS

new module: Search DSS File enables searches for utterances containing particular scoring categories
new module: Practice DSS Coding provides students with structured practice, context-sensitive help, and accuracy feedback
improvements to coding of utterance repetitions and excluded utterances

PROPH+

the transliterated phonetic alphabet used in earlier versions of CP has been replaced by true phonetic characters or close equivalents
maximum file size increased to 330 words
additional Code field for word entries allows analyses to be performed with or without problems, frequent items, imitations, spontaneous productions, etc.
additional Remark field for word entries allows entry of comments for students, research assistants, etc.
automatic calculation of the "90/70/225" rule (Shriberg & Kwiatkowski, 1985) for phonological samples
calculation of Articulation Competence Index (Shriberg, 1993) and selective PCC measures: PCC-Revised, PCC-Adjusted, PCC-Early 8, PCC- Middle 8, and PCC-Late 8 (Shriberg, 1996)
enhanced phonological process analysis: additional processes, option for long or short analysis, calculation of percentage correct for all process opportunities to detect process "bleeding"
additional PROPH+ analyses: homonymy (Ingram, 1981), phonetic variability, sound accuracy by phoneme/position, and sound errors by feature class/position
new module: Create PROPH Dictionary enables creation and editing of up to nine separate phonetic dictionaries for national, regional, and nonstandard varieties of English
phonetic dictionary can be accessed from the Edit PROPH File module
variant pronunciations (e.g., citation form, rapid speech form) can be entered in dictionary
new phonetic dictionaries: British (RP), Canadian, Southern American, Eastern American, Appalachian American, African American
words can be automatically coded for length in syllables, allowing comparative analyses of monosyllabic and multisyllabic productions, or for grammatical function, allowing comparison of functor and substantive words
new module: Compare PROPH Files identifies differences in coding and transcription between two files
new module: Practice PROPH Coding provides students with structured transcription practice and accuracy feedback
new module: Transfer Transcriptions enables comparison of transcription forms to different targets, e.g., standard and nonstandard dialects
new module: Model Sound Changes shows the effect of one or more sound changes (phonological processes or substitution/deletion of individual segments) on a file of phonetic forms
new module: Search All Dictionaries searches all phonetic dictionaries for one or more target forms to facilitate the comparison of regional or social dialects
in Windows 95, audio (.wav) files of word recordings can be played in both Edit PROPH File and Practice PROPH Coding modules

PROP

new module: Compare PROP Files identifies discrepancies in coding between two files

Computerized Profiling

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