Phonetics and Phonology

Phonetics and Phonology Links

• Phonological Atlas of North America Telsur is a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.
  
• University of Michigan Phonetic Training Tools A downloadable free demo.
  
• MAS Model of Vowel Perception and Production Visual identification of raw complex waveforms has lead to a new model of vowel perception. Explains categorization, vowel misperceptions, and how a vowel is produced.
  
• Say... Text-to-speech translator which also reads ASCII representations of the IPA.
  
• Speech on the Web Links to pages related to phonetics and speech sciences.
  
• The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary A machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.
  
• Contrasted Phonology of English & Portuguese Vowels English, Portuguese & Spanish vowels are discussed, and possible errors of Portuguese ESL students are examined.
  
• International Phonetic Association The oldest representative organisation for phoneticians. This site contains information on membership, publications, and the complete phonetic alphabet.
  
• Magical Letter Page Phonosemantics- the meaning of sound.
  
• Usenet IPA/ASCII transcription
  
• Phonétique Cours d'introduction la phonétique de la section de linguistique de l'Universit de Lausanne. A multimedia introductory course in phonetics from the University of Lausanne.
  
• Interactive Sagittal Section Uses JavaScript to display articulations and IPA transcriptions for consonants.
  
• Linguistics: Phonology How to pronounce "ghoti," and why.
  
• IPA-SAM Phonetic Fonts
  
• Linguistics & Phonetics Worldwide The big list of links.
  
• Sounds of the World's Animals How animal sounds are represented in various languages.
  
• Scientific American: The Throat Singers of Tuva Testing the limits of vocal ingenuity, throat-singers can create sounds unlike anything in ordinary speech and song.
  
• Socrates Links to internet resources in phonetics and speech communication.
  
• Speech Visualization Software Tools Shareware tools for speech training using real time visual feedback on sounds. Runs on Windows 95 or 98, free downloads. Spectrograms and much more.
  
• General Phonetics A useful course on the basics of phonetics. Many online resources and explanations.