Abstract
Phoneme Counter has been developed for three different purposes; as a research tool
for analyzing English texts at the phoneme level, as a pedagogical tool for instructors to
plan pronunciation lessons, and as a self-learning tool for English learners to practice
pronunciation. It automatically converts all the words in any given English text into
simplified phonetic symbols, and calculates the number of phonemes that appear in the
text. More functions were added to Phoneme Counter ver.2.0 to help learners recognize
the features of English sounds, such as stressed syllables, sound changes, and how each
phoneme is pronounced. In this paper, following the descriptions of the system
configuration, the procedures and the results of two sample studies will be shown in order
to suggest how Phoneme Counter can be used by researchers, instructors, and learners.
Limitations of the current version (ver.3.0) and plans for further improvements will be
discussed at the end of the paper.
