Phonetics & Phonology Links

This page has a collection of links to online documents on phonetics, phonology and the International Phonetic Alphabet that I have found particularly interesting or helpful. They are presented in no particular order, except for a rough classification. Please leave your remarks or suggestions on the discussion page.

• The site of the International Phonetic Association with links to resources
• Clickable IPA chart (U Victoria, Canada) for writing down IPA (can be downloaded and installed locally)
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• (U Victoria, Canada), to insert images into web pages
• to hear what they sound like (.wav files)
• McGurk effect (video demonstration)
• Unicode IPA font samples
• Speech Accent Archive (.mov files); here is a version with some of the samples converted to .mp3
• IPA Handbook with a number of sound files and transcriptions for various languages (U Victoria, Canada)
• Peter Ladefoged’s phonetics resource page includes language maps, IPA symbol search, sound index and a phonetics of English course (.aiff files) (UCLA)
• alt.usage.english audio archive
• speech samples from GMU Speech Accent Archive
• Vowel charts for English (BrE, AmE), German, Swedish, Finnish… excellent (Antti Iivonen, U Helsinki)
• Prosody on the web (chunking, focus, pitch)

• Stirling U (UK) online phonology course (uses RP)
• Phonétique et Phonologie sur le site Sur les sentiers de la linguistique introduction à la linguistique française de Henriette Gezundhajt, U Toronto
• University College London: online web tutorials by the Dep. of Phonetics & Linguistics (all sorts of stuff to poke around in)
• U Arizona: The varieties of English with phonetics, phonology, IPA, resources …
• General phonetics course (very complete; a whole lot on transcription; Kevin Russell, U Manitoba); see also the page Phonetics notes
• Demos from the Mouton interactive introduction to phonetics and phonology (U Marburg; pulmonic consonants, cardinal vowels, hearing system)
• 3 cours en ligne intro à la linguistique, intro à la phonétique, éléments de statistique textuelle (U Lausanne – phonetics intro available in English translation)
• U Penn Linguistics 001 (Mark Liberman) has chapters on phonetics and phonology
• Introduction à la linguistique française (U Queens, Kinston), y compris chapîtres sur la phonétique et la phonologie
• Ling 101: Phonology (U Delaware)
• Phonétique du français québecois (U Laval)
• Phonetik und Phonologie (aus: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft, LMU München)
• Phonetik und Phonologie (U Bremen; mit Materialien und dem Vorlesungsskript)

• Speech analysis course U Cambridge (very technical)
• Speech analysis tutorial (U Lund, Sweden; short and sweet)
• Spectrogram reading tutorial
• yet another tutorial: How to read spectrograms (U Washington)

• Studying phonetics on the net (U Washington)
• U Texas linguistics resources (rather beautifully done, with sections on phonetics and phonology)
• Forensic phonetics (Helen Fraser, U New England, NSW, Australia)
• Speech internet dictionary (SID) (all sorts of technical terms)
• Common mistakes in English by language background (pronunciation mistakes, that is)