INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
      2009 FALL & 2010 SPRING
      DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
      FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

 

RELEVANT LINKS

  Relative Links  

台灣語言學會

What is linguistics/phonetics? (Bulleted graphics; handy for first day of class)

Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) homepage (IPA Help is excellent; also IPA fonts, many tools)

The International Phonetic Alphabet

The vocal tract

Plosives 2: Voicing onset time and aspiration (tutorial)

Linguistics Online

The Tongue Twister Database

Slip of the tongue

http://www.personal.kent.edu/~pbohanbr/Webpage/New/newintro.html#*
a website dedicated to the contributions of the foremost figure in linguistics—Noam Chomsky.

American Association of Applied Linguistics

Phonetics and Linguistics

http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/ 
(It's a collection of accents where you may hear the different pronunciation according to the native language of the speaker or according to their regional location. Under "English" you will find accents of people from England, Australia and different parts of the US.)

Introduction to Linguistics

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Linguistics-and-Philosophy/index.htm
It is MIT website offering FREE course materials on line!! Of course, there are materials on linguistics, including introduction to linguistics!! But the materials are all in PDF. Anyway, have fun getting what you need!!

 

Website for Phonetics

Online phonetics course (U of Lausanne, Switzerland; translated from French)
http://www.unil.ch/ling/phonetique/api1-eng.html#Intro

X-Ray film database for speech research (Amazing x-ray videos of people talking)
http://psyc.queensu.ca/~munhallk/05_database.htm

Speech organs (great graphics; includes downloadable QuickTime movie of x-ray speech)
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/phonation.htm

Vocal cords vibrating
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/demos/vocalfolds/vocalfolds.htm

Respiration and airstream mechanisms
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/RESPIRAT.htm

Methods of examining larynx (further methods; vocal cords in motion)
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page13a.htm

Movement of articulators
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/demos/croatian/index.html

The distinctive vowel sounds of British and American English (click to hear the sounds)
 http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html

Unstressed vowels
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec1/trans2.htm

Intro to prosody: chunking, focus, pitch (tutorial)
http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/pow/powin.htm

 Multiple articulations
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec5/multiple.htm

Coarticulation
http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Sidney/coartdem/

Sound machines: require MS Internet Explorer
http://www.btinternet.com/~eptotd/vm/soundmachines.htm

Speech Internet dictionary home page
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/sid/sidhome.htm

Sound waves
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec4/acoust1.htm

Intro to speech waves and spectrograms (Lund. Sweden)
http://www.ling.lu.se/research/speechtutorial/tutorial.html

cslu - Center for Spoken Language Understanding: spectrogram tutorial, speech toolkit
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tutordemos/

Studying phonetics on the Net: excellent links (some already in this list)
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html

The vOICe Sonification Applet  ***** My nomination for niftiest site on the Internet! Convert graphics to sound and vice-versa. FUN!!! And instructive.*****
http://www.visualprosthesis.com/javoice.htm

Spectrogram version of preceding site
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/javoice/vowjavoice2.html

Types of phonation: creaky, breathy, harsh, falsetto
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page10.htm

 


 

Speech research (USC)
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/speech.html

 Videos available from the Acoustical Society of America
 http://asa.aip.org/videos.html


 

 

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