Phonetics and Phonology Links

The sounds of the world's languages

• A Course in Phonetics.The very useful website for the textbook by Peter Ladefoged.
• Peter Ladefoged's Vowels and Consonants
• The website for the IPA Handbook. Includes recordings of transcribed language samples in the handbook
• SIL IPA fonts: Downloadable standard freeware IPA fonts.
• Slow-motion movie of vocal fold vibration. Produced by Peter Ladefoged.
• The Speech Accent Archive. Random samples of many different accents in English, both foreign and native.
• American English dialects. A summary of differences in pronunciation from William Labov
• Transcription exercise: South Carolina.
• Transcription exercise: Kinyarwanda.
• Transcription exercise: Hebrew.
• Transcription exercise: Japanese.
• Transcription exercise: Hungarian.
• ToBI: A transcription system for English intonation

Acoustics

• Demo tones
• An example of superimposition of sine waves.
• Some demos of basic acoustics
• PRAAT: An excellent free acoustic analysis and synthesis program.

Speech perception

• Frequency response of the basilar membrane
• The Ladefoged-Broadbent Experiment: A demonstration of speaker normalization.
• The McGurk Effect. Showing that visual information is used in speech perception, i.e. that everyone lipreads to some extent.
• Haskins Laboratories. The source for a lot of what we now know about speech perception and production.

Phonology

• Phonology case studies: Kinyarwanda, Turkish, Catalan
• The Rutgers Optimality Archive. The central web-site for papers in Optimality Theory.
• The Metathesis Website. Beth Hume's survey of metathesis patterns of the world.

Statistical analysis

• R. Powerful free software for statistical analysis