Phonetics and Phonology Websites

Online language laboratory providing pronunciation practice and accent correction in a number of languages.

Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.

Contributed-content index of Optimality Theory information. Searchable or browseable data, submission and update forms, font and utility downloads, links to other collections.

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.

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.

Preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones.

List of categorized links concerning the study of spoken English.

Variety of links to mainly acoustics-related sites.

Database of recordings of speech in various languages.

Summary of work on spoken language at Göteborg University, including discussion of Modified Standard Orthography (MSO). [by Allwood et al, Göteborg University]

Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish".

List of mostly print resources on phonology recommended by a professor who specializes in phonological research.

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.

Contains information concerning speech synthesis, vocal tract modeling, facial animation, and the McGurk effect.

Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.

Provides the basic English sounds and the usual phonetic symbols, with examples and downloadable sounds.

Paper on the use of fundamental frequency displays for teaching English intonation. [by Richard Stibbard]