Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology
This category in other languages: - Provides the basic English sounds and the usual phonetic symbols, with examples and downloadable sounds. - Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics. - English, Portuguese, and Spanish vowels are discussed, and possible errors of Portuguese-speaking students of English are examined. - Contains speech samples illustrating the phonetic diversity of non-lexical items in conversation, such as uh-huh, mm-hm, nn-hnn, nyeah, m-kay, together with discussion of their pragmatics. - Preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones. - Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish". - Information on a scheme to use Roman alphabet as a common script for all the Indian languages. - List of mostly print resources on phonology recommended by a professor who specializes in phonological research. - Tools and formats for speech and text annotation - Virtual library of linguistics and phonetics. - Site regarding phonosemantics, the meaning of sound. - Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. - Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada. - Introduction to prosody, including chunking, focus, and pitch. - Contributed-content index of Optimality Theory information. Searchable or browseable data, submission and update forms, font and utility downloads, links to other collections. - Links to internet resources in phonetics and speech communication. - Archive of foreign accents recorded in English. Phonetic transcriptions and phonological generalizations are provided. - Comprehensive dictionary of terms used in phonetics and linguistics - Variety of links to mainly acoustics-related sites. - Summary of work on spoken language at Göteborg University, including discussion of Modified Standard Orthography (MSO). [by Allwood et al, Göteborg University] - List of categorized links concerning the study of spoken English. - Contains information concerning speech synthesis, vocal tract modeling, facial animation, and the McGurk effect. - Paper on the use of fundamental frequency displays for teaching English intonation. [by Richard Stibbard] - Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions. - Paper on "The Kiel Intonation Model (KIM), its Implementation in TTS Synthesis and its Application to the Study of Spontaneous Speech." - Concerns rhythm in speech. - Database of recordings of speech in various languages. - Online language laboratory providing pronunciation practice and accent correction in a number of languages. - Collection of sound and speech examples of hundreds of languages and dialects. [by Peter Ladefoged, UCLA]
