Introduction to Phonetics Page by Page:

Notes and resources

Index

2. Overview of Introduction to Phonetics, p. 2

3. Reading aloud on tape (Fall 2003/2004/2006)
    Fall 2002 handout 1999-2001 handout

4. What is phonetics?

5. The vocal tract and places of articulation

6. X-ray cineradiography

7a. The vocal folds and voicing

7b. Talking with just one vocal fold, or none

8. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

9. IPA fonts, charts, and tests

10. Writing Chinese in IPA and the International Phonetic Association

11. Romanization I

12. Romanization II

13. Romanization III

14. Phonemes and allophones (with Backchat freeware)

15. More on phonemes and allophones

16. Waveforms, pitch track and WASP

17. Three tutorials on voicing and plosives

18. Playtime: Virtual Theremin (and a little about frequency and amplitude)

19. Phonotactics I (with language identifier)

20. Phonotactics II: Syllable structure

21. Phonotactics III (with rhyming dictionary)

22. Phonotactics IV: Practice Exercises

23. Phonotactics V: Exceptions and odd syllable types (with PC desktop dictionary)

24a. Playtime: Phonotactics VI: Phonotactic Games

24b. Playtime: Phonotactics VII: Phonetic timing and a parody of "That's Amore"

25. The tot/taught merger I: It's not just California (with dialect maps)

26. The tot/taught merger II: It's not just California (with dialect maps)

27. The sounds and allophones of Taiwan English I

28. The sounds and allophones of Taiwan English II (with allophone-writing exercise)

29. The sounds and allophones of Taiwan English III (with sample allophonic rules)

30. Foreign accents and national EFL dialects (with links to audio file databases)

31. How fast do you read English? (with online WPM tests and timer)

32. Schwa elision in English

33. Contractions

34. Phonological rules for English plurals and more

Peter Ladefoged's "A Course in Phonetics" and "Vowels and Consonants"
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/index.html

Obituary for Peter Ladefoged by Ian Maddieson

IPA character input keyboard
http://linguiste.org/phonetics/ipa/chart/keyboard/
Online IPA symbol editor page
http://ipa.typeit.org/

IPA consonant and vowel charts from the International Phonetic Association
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html

NEW! Audio recordings for William A. Smalley's
Manual of Articulatory Phonetics (MOAP)
http://bach.arts.kuleuven.be/MOAP/

NEW!!! Dictation practice

BOOK NOOK: A list of books for further reading in phonetics

Speech and hearing resources
collected by Judith Maginnis Kuster
http://www.mnsu.edu/dept/comdis/kuster4/part55.html

Tutorials - Voice Production
National Center for Voice and Speech
http://www.ncvs.org/ncvs/tutorials/voiceprod/tutorial/index.html

Voiceproblem.org, The Voice Problem Website
http://www.voiceproblem.org/index.asp

ALOES: Lots of phonetics links
http://asso.univ-lyon2.fr/aloes/links.htm

Joaquim Llisterri's phonetics resources – plentiful and impressive
http://liceu.uab.es/~joaquim/

George Dillon's (UW) phonetics resources
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/

Vastavox's Internet Resources for Voice and Speech Professionals
http://www.vasta.org/weblinks7.html

The Fantastic Voyage
See the vocal folds in action close up
http://www.ncvs.org/ncvs/tutorials/youngexp/fantasticvoyage.html

Scientific American: The Human Instrument
How Does The Singer's Voice Produce Those Amazing Sounds?
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-human-instrument
Sound Clips
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sound-clips-human-instrument

Mel Blanc's vocal folds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejVQEFbIfml

Peter Roach's Phon2: Phonetics Beyond the Basics
Phon 2 is an online phonetics course aimed at students
who already have an understanding of basic phonetics
and who wish to study phonetics at a more advanced level
http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/phon2/
  
Peter Roach's A Little Encyclopaedia of Phonetics (pdf)
http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/encyc.pdf

Speech Internet Dictionary
by John Maidment
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/sid/sidhome.htm

Phonetic Portrait Gallery - Pioneers In Phonetics And Speech Research
Olle Engstrand
http://www.ling.su.se/fon/phoneticians/Gubbar.html

John Wells' phonetics blog and homepage (UCL)
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog.htm
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/

Teaching of Phonetics e-mail discussion list
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PHONET.html
Post to: phonet@jiscmail.ac.uk

fonetiks newsletter
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/FONETIKS.html

More on ToBI
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/phonetik/gtobi/index.html

Ethnologue language name index
http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp

RP Imitation practice (audio file; may not work well outside of Taiwan)

More links here

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