Final Exam Information
Office hours, review session, sample questions
Prof. Maryellen MacDonald
Email: mcmacdonald@facstaff.wisc.edu
Prof. Kie Zuraw
Email: kie@ucla.edu
Carolina Gonzalez
Email: cgo@usc.edu
Narineh Hacopian
Uffe Larsen
Student information sheet for you to fill out
English consonant and vowel charts Consonants Vowels
Answer to Gestural Score homework (Word file) Answer to Gestural Score homework (html file)
Sounds of the world's languages
"Poor Readers Have Gotten Worse, U.S. Study Shows"
Article in the LA Times, April 7, 2001
"The Throat Singers of Tuva"
Article by Theodore C. Levin and Michael E. Edgerton in Scientific American
Articulatory and acoustic aspects of an unusual vocal tradition.
Phonological Atlas of North America/Atlas of North American English
(UPenn)
Dialect survey of North America. Includes maps.
UC Santa Cruz Perceptual Science Laboratory
Includes demos of facial animation.
Interactive Speech Synthesizer Comparison Site
(UPenn)
Enter text and see how it is read by various speech-synthesis programs.
A Course in Phonetics, Vowels and Consonants
(Peter Ladefoged, UCLA)
Web supplements for A Course in Phonetics.
Click on symbols in an IPA chart and hear them pronounced!
Lots more, including interesting sounds from real languages.
Speech organs
(John Coleman, Oxford)
Great graphics. Includes downloadable QuickTime movie of x-ray speech,
pictures of larynx, diagram of motion of vocal cords.
Vocal cords in action
(Fred Cummins, Northwestern)
Five still photos.
Vocal cords vibrating
(UCLA)
Slow-motion movie.
X-Ray film database for speech research
(Kevin Munhall, Queen's; Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson and Yoh'ichi Tohkura, ATR Human Information Processing Laboratories)
Amazing x-ray films of people talking. Includes a sample of Canadian French!
3-D vocal tract MRI gallery
(Brad Story, WJ Gould Voice Research Center)
The golden thing that you see is the empty space in the vocal tract (where the
air goes through). The person is facing to the right and is seen in profile.
The Linguist List Mega-list for linguists, including on-line discussions.
Linguistic Society of America Linguistics FAQs and more.
Summer Institute of Linguistics Fonts, information on the world's languages, and more.
Ethnologue Published by SIL. Information on each of the world's languages.
The Internation Phonetic Association IPA charts, fonts, audio clips.
Speech Internet dictionary (SIPhTrA) Giant glossary.
