English Linguistics->Phonetics->In-depth study

Fonetiks is an educational site that aims to teach the pronunciation of world's languages. Its heading identifies itself as "free online pronunciation guides with instant sound." This site was established in 2000 by Tim Bowyer, a former British Council lecturer, in order to enable language learners to study native speakers' pronunciation conveniently. Here language learners can listen to native pronunciation simply by mousing over the text on their computer screen.

Fonetiks offers native speakers' pronunciation of ten languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Thai. In particular, in the case of English, the site offers nine varieties of English including American English, British English, Irish English, and more. Users can listen to each phone's pronunciation of a given language and minimal pairs. They can also find out how pronunciation of a given language has changed over years.

Although this website is not an academic site and its intended users are language learners and teachers, linguists who teach and research on pronunciation of varieties of English will also find it useful.

This site was last updated in 2007.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://www.fonetiks.org

Keyword(s) : pronunciation, phonetics, phone

English Linguistics->Phonetics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Phonetics->Conference
English Linguistics->Phonetics->Journal

This is the official website of the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. CSTR is an active interdisciplinary research group concerned with speech recognition, speech sythesis, and other speech technologies.

This website gives a great deal of information about CSTR, its current projects, seminars and conference schedules. The current research covers speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech signal processing, information access, multimodal interfaces, dialogue systems, machine learning, and acoustic phonetics. More importantly, the website has an archive of articles written by CSTR members which visitors can download. The site also contains several downloadable softwares on speech technologies and corpora.

This site will be useful for phoneticians particularly interested in speech perception and synthesis, and for computer scientists or engineers interested in human speech.

(Last reviewed July 5, 2007.)

URL : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/

Keyword(s) : phonetics, speech technology, software, corpora

English Linguistics->Phonetics->School or Organization

The International Phonetic Association (IPA) was established in 1886 in Paris. It is the major as well as the oldest representative organization for phoneticians.

The goal of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of phonetics. In pursuit of this goal, 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). Furthermore, the Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is available to IPA members, non-members, and institutions.

This site will be useful for those who are interested in phonetics in general. It is also helpful for the people who want to get information on IPA or download IPA fonts and sounds.

This site was last updated in Sep. 2006.

(Last reviewed July 5, 2007.)

URL : http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/index.html

Keyword(s) : IPA, International Phonetic Association, phonetics

English Linguistics->Phonetics->Scholar

This is the personal website of Paul Boersma, professor of Phonetic Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. This homepage introduces Beorsma's teaching courses, his research interests, and his papers. His academic achievements in phonology and phonetics are outstanding.

Paul Boersma's research papers and publications are introduced and we can download his papers that are linked in this site. The author also provides his course descriptions. It is very interesting that Boersma arranged his presentation records. He provides the sildes of each presentation, which we can also download. This website links other scholars such as Bruce Hayes and Paolar Escudero and other useful phonetics websites such as Praat software.

Even though this website only provides phonetics and phonology issues, students who have an interest in linguistics can get a lot of useful information. In particular, the provided papers and information will be valuable for phoneticians.

This site was last updated in 2007

(Last reviewed July 5, 2007.)

URL : http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/paul/

Keyword(s) : Boersma, phonetics, phonology

English Linguistics->Phonetics->Scholar

This is the personal homepage of Keith Johnson who is a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley. It provides his research interests, research projects, curriculum vitae, books, and photos. Keith Johnson's major interest is in phonetics.

This homepage is linked to the official website of UC Berkeley Linguistics program and the official site of UC Berkeley so that you can freely explore further. It provides Johnson's curriculum vitae and short explanations about his courses in UC Berkeley. He also provides his own explanations about the content of his published books.

You can download some articles of his research project that he is currently working on.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://corpus.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~kjohnson/

Keyword(s) : Johnson, phonetics