phonokit: a toolkit to create phonological representations in Typst
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Creating high-quality phonological representations in academic documents is often time-consuming and requires juggling multiple tools and LaTeX packages (most notably tikz). This vignette introduces phonokit, an open-source Typst package designed to streamline the creation of phonological structures while maintaining typographical precision. The package provides intuitive functions for IPA transcription (supporting tipa input conventions), prosodic representations (syllables, moras, feet, prosodic words, metrical grids), sonority profiles, IPA vowel charts and consonant tables with built-in language inventories, autosegmental phonology (feature spreading, tone, delinking), multi-tier representations for complex non-linear structures such as Government Phonology, CV phonology, SPE feature matrices, Optimality Theory tableaux, Harmonic Grammar, Noisy Harmonic Grammar, Maximum Entropy grammars, and Hasse diagrams for constraint rankings. The package also includes numbered linguistic examples and a collection of helper symbols for Greek letters and arrows. All functions prioritize minimal input syntax while automatically handling typographical challenges such as dynamic spacing and proper alignment. The font used by the package can be customized globally. phonokit aims to reduce cognitive load in document preparation, allowing phonologists to focus on content rather than formatting. The package is freely available through Typst’s package repository and is under active development.
Author: Garcia, Guilherme D.
Institution: Université Laval
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7124322091
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