Phonetics and Phonology

Institutions and Organisations (5)
International Phonetic Alphabet (12)
Software (8)
Tutorials (9)

Acoustics of the vowel - Experiments concerning the physical characteristics of vowels: formants and pitches (F0), formant pattern ambiguity, formant number alteration. Important for all sciences related to speech, acoutsic phonetics, speech therapy and speech recognition.

Analytic Listening: A New Approach to Ear-Training - Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics.

Anatomy of the vocal tract - Diagram and descriptions of the places of articulation.

Auditory scales of frequency representation - Overview of conversion equations and suggestions as to when it is appropriate to use Hz, semi-tones, mel, bark, and ERB.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.

Contrasted Phonology of English and Portuguese Vowels - English, Portuguese, and Spanish vowels are discussed, and possible errors of Portuguese-speaking students of English are examined.

English Conversational Grunts - Contains speech samples illustrating the phonetic diversity of non-lexical items in conversation, such as uh-huh, mm-hm, nn-hnn, nyeah, m-kay, together with discussion of their pragmatics.

Four Tones and Downtrend - Preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones.

How to Pronounce "Ghoti" - Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish".

Infography about Phonology - List of mostly print resources on phonology recommended by a professor who specializes in phonological research.

The Kiel Intonation Modell (KIM) - Paper on "The Kiel Intonation Model (KIM), its Implementation in TTS Synthesis and its Application to the Study of Spontaneous Speech."

Linguistic Annotation - Tools and formats for speech and text annotation

Linguistics and Phonetics Worldwide - Virtual library of linguistics and phonetics.

Magical Letter Page - Site regarding phonosemantics, the meaning of sound.

Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish - Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English.

Phonological Atlas of North America - Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.

Prosody on the Web - Introduction to prosody, including chunking, focus, and pitch.

The Rhythmic Speech Museum - Concerns rhythm in speech.

Rutgers Optimality Archive - Contributed-content index of Optimality Theory information. Searchable or browseable data, submission and update forms, font and utility downloads, links to other collections.

Socrates - Links to internet resources in phonetics and speech communication.

Speech Accent Archive - Archive of foreign accents recorded in English. Phonetic transcriptions and phonological generalizations are provided.

Speech Internet Dictionary - Comprehensive dictionary of terms used in phonetics and linguistics

Speech Web Sites - Variety of links to mainly acoustics-related sites.

The SpeechDat Project - Database of recordings of speech in various languages.

Spoken Language Corpus - Summary of work on spoken language at Göteborg University, including discussion of Modified Standard Orthography (MSO). [by Allwood et al, Göteborg University]

Studying Phonetics on the Net - List of categorized links concerning the study of spoken English.

Talking Heads - Contains information concerning speech synthesis, vocal tract modeling, facial animation, and the McGurk effect.

Teaching English Intonation with a Visual Display of Fundamental Frequency - Paper on the use of fundamental frequency displays for teaching English intonation. [by Richard Stibbard]

Virtual Language Laboratory - Online language laboratory providing pronunciation practice and accent correction in a number of languages.

Vowels and Consonants - Collection of sound and speech examples of hundreds of languages and dialects. [by Peter Ladefoged, UCLA]

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