Phonetics and Phonology Linguistics Social Sciences

• - Contributed-content index of Optimality Theory information. Searchable or browseable data, submission and update forms, font and utility downloads, links to other collections.
  
• - Experiments concerning the physical characteristics of vowels: formants and pitches (F0), formant pattern ambiguity, formant number alteration. Important for all sciences related to speech, acoutsic phonetics, speech therapy and speech recognition.
  
• - How animal sounds are represented in various languages.
  
• - Online language laboratory providing pronunciation practice and accent correction in a number of languages.
  
• - Site regarding phonosemantics, the meaning of sound.
  
• - Dissertation of Matthias Jilka on "The Contribution of Intonation to the Perception of Foreign Accent" [Postscript and PDF]
  
• - Preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones.
  
• - Summary of work on spoken language at Göteborg University, including discussion of Modified Standard Orthography (MSO). [by Allwood et al, Göteborg University]
  
• - Contains information concerning speech synthesis, vocal tract modeling, facial animation, and the McGurk effect.
  
• - Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish".
  
• - Comprehensive dictionary of terms used in phonetics and linguistics
  
• - Acoustic vowel charts of various languages [by Antti Iivonen, University of Helsinki Department of Phonetics]
  
• - Virtual library of linguistics and phonetics.
  
• - Links to internet resources in phonetics and speech communication.
  
• - Concerns rhythm in speech.
  
• - Variety of links to mainly acoustics-related sites.
  
• - Paper on the use of fundamental frequency displays for teaching English intonation. [by Richard Stibbard]
  
• - 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.
  
• - English, Portuguese, and Spanish vowels are discussed, and possible errors of Portuguese-speaking students of English are examined.
  
• - Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics.
  
• - List of mostly print resources on phonology recommended by a professor who specializes in phonological research.
  
• - Diagram and descriptions of the places of articulation.
  
• - List of categorized links concerning the study of spoken English.
  
• - Collection of sound and speech examples of hundreds of languages and dialects. [by Peter Ladefoged, UCLA]
  
• - Overview of conversion equations and suggestions as to when it is appropriate to use Hz, semi-tones, mel, bark, and ERB.
  
• - Archive of foreign accents recorded in English. Phonetic transcriptions and phonological generalizations are provided.
  
• - Introduction to prosody, including chunking, focus, and pitch.
  
• - Database of recordings of speech in various languages.
  
• - Tools and formats for speech and text annotation
  
• - Paper on "The Kiel Intonation Model (KIM), its Implementation in TTS Synthesis and its Application to the Study of Spontaneous Speech."
  
• - Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English.
  
• - Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.
  
• - Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.
  
• - Links to pages related to phonetics and speech sciences.
  
  

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