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

11/22/10: China Times piece for Pinyin and IPA transcription practice   
Answers: Pinyin   IPA Reference transcription

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

Obituary for Peter Ladefoged by Ian Maddieson

The California Report Magazine: Disappearing Languages (audio)
The late UCLA professor Peter Ladefoged was the Indiana Jones of spoken language.

UCLA Phonetics Lab Language Archive
Recordings of hundreds of languages from around the world.
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/main2.htm

IPA character input keyboard
http://linguiste.org/phonetics/ipa/chart/keyboard/

LINGUIST list: The International Phonetic Alphabet keyboard
http://linguistlist.org/unicode/ipa.html

Online IPA symbol editor page
http://ipa.typeit.org/

The International Phonetics Association
http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/

NEW!!! 漢 語 拼 音 八 講
EIGHT LESSONS IN HANYU PINYIN
http://faculty.valencia.cc.fl.us/rpan1/Related%20Links/HanYuPinYin-8.pdf

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

Lessons in prosody
Based on William A. Smalley's
Manual of Articulatory Phonetics (MOAP)
by Peter Gilles and Anne Catherine Simon
http://paul.igl.uni-freiburg.de/lip/

NEW!!! Dictation practice

Vowels of the International Phonetic Alphabet
Amazing transparent animated models of the mouth articulating vowels
http://lizsandler.co.uk/articulation_homepage.html

Sesame Street: Demonstration of how the "Echo Method" works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNghp9tPXjo

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

EnglishCentral: Automatic online pronunciation correction
Learn English while watching videos! You are ONE CLICK away from learning English.
Our unique speech recognition platform allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video
you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing.
http://www.englishcentral.com/en/videos

Speech and hearing resources
collected by Judith Maginnis Kuster
http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/welcome.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

TED video: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

NEW: TED video: Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/TED_sound2.htm

Sexiest accent in the world?

Disappearing Vowels 'Caught' On Tape In US Midwest

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

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