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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
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
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/
                    
                        NEW!!!
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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
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            English.
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            practice SPEAKING with any video 
            you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are
            doing. 
            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
          
          More links
                  here