Phonetic resources, games and useful links Phun with Phonetics

Phun with Phonetics

http://www.academic.muohio.edu/the233/phunwithphonetics/

Bud the Tastebud

http://www.academic.muohio.edu/the233/budthetastebud/

Hangman

It should be noted that this version of Hangman is written using North American English. At present, no British English version is available.

These games (Phun, Bud and Hangman) were designed by Professor Julia Guichard of Miami University in consultation with the authors. We have her permission and that of the software designers (Brett Carr and his group) to both link to their site or to house a fully intact version of these games on our site.

Phonetics Flash Animation Site

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/

IPA Charts

http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/index.html

Phonetic Fonts.

Many students will find it useful to be able to type in a phonetic font. Here are instructions for downloading and installing these fonts for both Windows and Mac operating systems.

http://www.vasta.org/fonts/index.html

The International Phonetic Association.

This is the primary scholastic and research body establishing standards for the use of phonetic symbols for languages worldwide. Their site has many useful research and study features.

http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/

eNunciate http://enunciate.arts.ubc.ca/japanese/introduction/introduction-to-phonetics/

The University of British Columbia's Introduction to Linguistics site provides IPA charts with ultrasound and animated illustrations of speech anatomy in action on pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants, and vowels. There is also a link to pages explaining and illustrating the sound system of Japanese.

Glossonomia http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/glossonomia/Glossonomia/Glossonomia_Podcast/Glossonomia_Podcast.html

Glossonomia, Conversations on the Sounds of Speech is a podcast by VASTANs Eric Armstrong and Phil Thompson. Each podcast they talk about a different speech sound.

Interactive Charts of the IPA http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/index.html, http://www.paulmeier.com/ipacharts/

Superb resource designed by VASTAn Eric Armstrong and voiced by VASTAn Paul Meier, and accessible at either link. Includes Flash animated IPA charts (1996 version) plus diphthongs and triphthongs of Received Pronunciation and General American. Now available as an IOS app. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/interactive-ipa/id873308318?mt=8

Interactive IPA Chart http://www.ipachart.com/

From the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive; voiced by Peter Isotalo.

International Phonetic Association https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/

The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians. The aim of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. In furtherance of this aim, the IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages—the International Phonetic Alphabet (also IPA).

John Wells’s Phonetics Blog http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/

Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, UCL, J.C. Wells is also the editor of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (for English), and the author of Accents of English. (No longer updated.)

Seeing Speech http://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipachart/display.php?chart=1&datatype=1&speaker=1

An articulatory web resource for the study of Phonetics from the University of Glasgow. This link takes you to the animated pulmonic consonant chart; use the pull-down menus to select other IPA charts, plus your choice of animation, MRI, and ultrasound videos of each speech sound.

Speech Internet Dictionary http://blogjam.name/sid/

Concise definitions of technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science and allied disciplines. Examples, illustrations, sound clips, and references.

University of Victoria Department of Linguistics

Offers a variety of free resources, such as this Multimedia IPA Chart, http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm

IPA Handbook audio files, http://www.uvic.ca/humanities/linguistics/resources/ipa/audio/index.php