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1. Overview of Introduction to Phonetics, p. 1

2. Overview of Introduction to Phonetics, p. 2

3. Reading aloud on tape: Fall 2017
   
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
     11/22/10: China Times piece for Pinyin and IPA transcription practice
     Answers: Pinyin  IPA Reference transcription

11. Romanization I

12. Romanization II

13. Romanization III

14. Phonemes and allophones

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

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" (5th edition)
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html
User-friendly website for the 7th edition

Obituary for Peter Ladefoged by Ian Maddieson (  January 24, 2006) (pdf)

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

i2Spi:k IPA character input
http://www.i2speak.com/

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


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

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

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EIGHT LESSONS IN HANYU PINYIN

http://www.svcs-us.org/docs/academics/2012-2013/HanYuPinYin.pdf
local copy

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


Audio files for William A. Smalley's
Manual of Articulatory Phonetics (MOAP)

by Jean-Philippe Goldman
http://latlcui.unige.ch/phonetique/moap/


NEW!!! Dictation practice

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
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http://www.englishcentral.com/videos

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

Voiceproblem.org, The Voice Problem Website
https://voicefoundation.org/health-science/voice-disorders/introduction/


Jennifer Smith's Phonetics Resources
http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/pht-url.html


Joaquim Llisterri's phonetics resources ¡V 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
https://www.vasta.org/vasta-links


The Fantastic Voyage
See the vocal folds in action close up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_X83_EolcQ

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


Speech Internet Dictionary
by John Maidment
http://blogjam.name/sid/


John Wells' phonetics blog and homepage (UCL)
http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/
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


Ethnologue language name index
https://www.ethnologue.com/browse/names

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

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

Disappearing Vowels 'Caught' On Tape In US Midwest

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