FOLERPA is an online tool for carrying out perceptual experiments, developed at the Instituto da Lingua Galega [Galician Language Institute]

A idea inicial da creación desta plataforma xorde no ano 2012, no marco do Proxecto Estudo perceptivo da variación prosódica dialectal do galego. Un ano máis tarde preséntase, no Simposio Metodoloxía para o estudo perceptivo da variación prosódica dialectal, o prototipo da “Plataforma de recursos para a investigación en dialectoloxía perceptiva” en colaboración coa Rede de Tecnoloxías e Análise dos Datos Lingüísticos (TecAnDaLi). Finalmente, a primeira versión accesible da ferramenta actual preséntase en marzo de 2014 no 30. Forum Junge Romanistik (Berna) e en novembro dese mesmo ano no VI Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental (València).

The main purpose of this platform is to provide researchers with a series of integrated resources for carrying out perceptual experiments online, using a user-friendly, interactive and flexible graphical interface which does not require researchers to have prior knowledge in programming.

Registration is necessary in order to access the platform. Once registered, users can create perceptual tests, distribute tests to participants in the experiment, collect and download responses, and carry out a primary descriptive analysis of the results.

In FOLERPA, the entire experimental process takes place online, which allows access to the platform from any computer system with an Internet connection. Moreover, FOLERPA allows several participants to simultaneously carry out the same test from different computers connected to the Internet.