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TASKS.md

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 # Ordered Task List
 A→Z+T is now organized into a series of discrete tasks, which are divided into the two groups below.
 
-There is a chooser to help you stay focused on one or the other of these, and with a button to switch between them.
+There is a chooser to help you stay focused on one or the other of these, and with a button (upper right) to switch between them.
 
 ## [Data Collection Tasks](TASKSCOLLECTION.md)
 

TASKSANALYSIS.md

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 ## Running reports
 Reports are listed under analytical tasks because they are a fundamental part of the analytical process, and have more to do with looking at data that is there, than with adding or modifying primary data. That said, you may be interested in running a report, even if you otherwise just do data collection.
 
-## Transcription
+## (Comprehensive) Alphabet Report
+This report gives you information on Consonants and Vowels, according to the part of speech, syllable profile, and check you have asked for (e.g., CVCV Nouns by V1, or by V1=V2, or V1xV2 —the correspondence of the two vowels). The Comprehensive report gives you Nouns and Verbs, in the two largest syllable profiles, across all appropriate checks.
 
-## Group Draft Underlying Report Forms
+## (Comprehensive) Tone Report
+This report gives you information on words in tone frames, according to the part of speech and syllable profile, organized with each framed example under its head word. The (by frames) report organizes the examples by frame, listing each word that has been sorted into that frame. The Comprehensive report gives you the top [two] parts of speech (should be Nouns and Verbs), in the [two] largest syllable profiles, across all appropriate checks (both of these numbers are configurable, if you want more or less of either).
+
+## Transcribe Tone
+In the sorting process, A→Z+T assigns numbers to the surface tone groups for each frame, because the first and main purpose is to distinguish what is different, and group what is the same. But here we can make those numbers more meaningful, assigning a phonetic value to the one tone melody shared by the group. This should be done in symbolic notation (e.g., {˦˦˦  ˨˨˨]), though you can use other notation as well. In any csae, this is **surface tone transcription**, not any kind of underlying representation, so and reference to High or Low tones is inapprpriate here.
+
+## Join Underlying Form Groups
+The UF groups drafted by A→Z+T are almost always clearly hypersplit. Here you can join those that (in your judgement) should be joined, and give them more meaningful names than the defaults (e.g., Noun_CVCV_1). These can by anything you want, including maintaining the part of speech and syllable profile info, and it is appropriate to add here your hypthesis about underlying forms.
+These groups can be renamed as you like, and these names will be represented in reports. 
+All these changes remain in the database until/unless you sort more data. In that case, the next report will redo the analysis, so you can start this joining work from the current group analysis. Alternatively, you can redo this analysis at any point, if you don't like the results of your groupings. 

TASKSCOLLECTION.md

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 # Data Collection Tasks
 If you want to run a report on any of the following (to see what you have done), those are described under [Analysis Tasks](TASKSANALYSIS.md).
 
-## Collect the Comparative African Word List (CAWL)
-You can do this from scratch, starting a new database, or by adding blank entries for the CAWL to your database.
+## Add Words
+You can fill out the Comparative African Word List (CAWL, the preferred method), or add words individually.
+You can fill out the CAWL from a new database, or add blank entries for the CAWL to a database you have already started.
 
-## Recording Words in isolation
+## Recording Words 
+Once you have collected a word list, you can record those words here. These recordings become another form of the word (citation/plural/imperative) forms in your LIFT database.
 
-## Sorting Words
+## Sort Tone
+This is this task where you will likely spend most of your time, sorting different words in different frames, asking which sound the same in a given context, and which sound different.
+One of these frames is often isolation!
 
-## Recording Words in Frames
+## Record Tone
+Once you have sorted words by tone, you can record each of those words in each of those frames here. These recordings are stored in LIFT examples, not in word forms as above. Because of this, if you use an isolation frame, you may have isolation recordings in two places.
 
-One of these frames is often isolation!