A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
these are a few of my favorite links …
My links page of Internet Resources for Voice and Speech Professionals is maintained on the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) website. Updated from time to time. Below is a considerably shorter list of links, prepared with my clients in mind. Not a client yet? Go ahead and click anyway!
Created by my colleagues Eric Armstrong and Paul Meier, Interactive Charts of the IPA includes Flash animated official IPA charts plus diphthongs and triphthongs of Received Pronunciation and “General” American. Also accessible here.
The IPA Handbook at the University of Victoria Department of Linguistics includes another interactive IPA chart.
Still another interactive IPA chart, this one by Jonathan Dowse, can be found at Williams University’s website.
Universiteit Utrecht presents links to recordings of the cardinal vowels, demonstrated by phonetician Daniel Jones in 1956.
The University of Iowa’s Phonetics Flash Animation Project shows you how the phonetic sounds of American English, German, and Spanish are made – using animated articulatory diagrams, step-by-step descriptions, and audio-video illustrations of sounds spoken in context, plus an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy. (Note: For American English, this site uses the Kenyon and Knott convention of showing the diphthong [eɪ] as [e] and the diphthong [oʊ] as [o]) This can be confusing if you are used to strict IPA. Equally confusing is the site’s use of [a] for [ɑ].)
The University of Sheffield presents the sounds of the IPA in audio-video files. Click on the symbols to see audio-video of speakers and animated diagrams of articulation.
Daniel Currie Hall designed this interactive saggital section on the University of Toronto’s website. Select articulations and see them in action!
The University of Lausanne Institute of Linguistics presents an internet primer, in English and French, on articulation of speech sounds, including IPA symbols with accompanying audio files. Follow the links in the menu at page left.
The official website of the International Phonetics Association (IPA) includes many useful pages of its own, plus a links page.
The International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) is the brainchild of Paul Meier of the University of Kansas, with assistance by Shawn Muller. It is an outstanding collection of primary source recordings, in English, of speakers in both English-language dialects and accents of other languages.
George Mason University’s Speech Accent Archive is another useful collection of sound files of speakers from many backgrounds, each reading a short sample paragraph in English. (IPA transcription, where provided, is of variable accuracy.)
The Speech Internet Dictionary gives concise definitions of technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science and allied disciplines. Examples, illustrations, sound clips, and references. Use the pull-down menu at page left to look up terms.
Get Body Smart presents Anatomy and Physiology of the Larynx, a handsomely designed collection of online tutorials and quizzes.
See the tongue and larynx in action on five vowels.
See both healthy and diseased vocal folds (vocal cords) in action.
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