Links for Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech & Hearing

Thanks to Karen Steffen Chung, National Taiwan University <karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw> and Ninik Poedjianto <npoedjianto@yahoo.co.uk> who compiled many of these links and added their comments.

I. Linguistics

• Why study Linguistics?  - Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics, and Area Studies
• BUBL  - catalogue of linguistics links from the UK National Information Service.
• Corpus Linguistics  - at the University of Birmingham
• Indexes to the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics  - from Elsevier Science Ltd.
• Inventory of Internet Resources in Phonetics  - from the SOCRATES Thematic Network in Phonetics and Speech Communication
• Kinship and Social Organization - Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba
• Linguistics Abstracts Online
• Linguistics List  - comprehensive lists of links from eastern Michigan University.
• Linguistics Links  - from Links-to-Go.
• Linguistics and Phonetics  - at the University of Leeds.
• List of Language Lists - computer email discussion lists for individual languages.
• Speech Technology Network (STN) and ELSNET directory of language and speech technology experts
• Summer Institute of Linguistics  - a very comprehensive site for linguistic resources.
• UCL Phonetics and Linguistics Page
• Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie de l'Université Laval à Québec

Metaphors

• The Metaphor and Metonymy Group University of Leicester
• Conceptual Metaphor Home Page George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley
• ATT-Meta Project Databank: Examples of Usage of Metaphors of Mind

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II. Phonetics, Speech & Hearing

• A Course in Phonetics: Vowels and Consonants - web supplements for Peter Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics
• Digitized Recordings of the Cardinal Vowels, by Daniel Jones - from the Phonetics Group, University of Utrecht
• EUSTACE: Edinburgh University Speech Timing Archive and Corpus of English
• International Phonetic Association (IPA)  - based in the University of Glasgow
• Internet Institute for Speech and Hearing - at the University College London
• Fields of Linguistics - explanations of the different field in linguistics, by the Linguistic Society of  America
• Linguistics and Phonetics  - at the University of Leeds.
• Online Phonetics Course - from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Phonological Atlas of North America - the Telsur Project at the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania
• Speech and Hearing Software Tools (Internet Institute for Speech and Hearing)
• Speech Technology Network - a virtual community for speech technology professionals
• Studying Phonetics on the Net  - via Washington University
• Studies on Speech Analysis, Acoustic Phonetics and Intonation  - by Pitch Instruments Inc.
• Summer Institute of Linguistics
• UCL Phonetics and Linguistics Page

• Anatomy of the vocal tract - from the University of Manitoba
• Speech organs - from the University of Oxford. Great graphics; includes downloadable QuickTime movie of x-ray speech)
• X-Ray film database for speech research - from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Amazing x-ray videos of people talking.
• Sound patterns in Human Language -  from Northwestern University.
• Sound patterns in Human Language: phonation  - five still photos of vocal cords in action
• A slow-motion animation of the vocal folds vibrating during speech - from UCLA
• Examining the Larynx - from the Voice Center at Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Methods of examining larynx - from the University of Stuttgart. Vocal cords in motion
• Movement of articulators - from UCLA

• The distinctive vowel sounds of British and American English - from the University of Washington (click to hear the sounds)
• Respiration and airstream mechanisms - from the University of Oxford
• SIPhTrA voicing basics tutorial - from System for Interactive Phonetics Training and Assessment (SIPhTra) project, UCL.
• SIPhTra Plosives 1: basics tutorial
• SIPhTra Plosives 2: Voicing onset time and aspiration tutorial
• Unstressed vowels - from the University of Manitoba
• Stress system database - from the University of Cardiff. Information on the patterns of primary (word) stress in some 190 languages.
• Intro to prosody: chunking, focus, pitch (tutorial) - from Prosody on the Web by the SIPhTrA project
• Multiple articulations - from the University of Manitoba
• Coarticulation - from Lund University
• Sound machines: Vowel Machine, Transcriber, VDIA (practice in recognising vowel sounds), TONI (recognise English nuclear tones) and PLATO (highlight the tonic syllable)

• Speech Internet Dictionary - from UCL. Definitions of technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science and allied disciplines.
• Sound waves - from the University of Manitoba
• Speech Analysis Tutorial - Introduction to speech waves and spectrograms from University of Lund
• Center for Spoken Language Understanding - tutorials on Spoken Language Systems, including spectrogram tutorial and speech toolkit from the Oregon Graduate Institute.
• 3-D vocal tract MRI gallery - from the WJ Gould Voice Research Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (slow loading; good graphics and sound files)
• Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Real time spectrogram - from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. (online spectrogram includes link to required Snack 16 plug-in)
• Monthly mystery spectrogram website - from University of Washington Linguistics Department (on holiday, but archives are available)
• Spectrogram reading - (in German) from the Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Universität München
• The vOICe Sonification Applet - from the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Sound to Graph to Sound with JavOICe - Spectrogram version of preceding site

• Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types - Ladefoged's clicks, ejectives, etc. in many languages
• Airstream mechanisms - from Northwestern University
• Types of phonation: creaky, breathy, harsh, falsetto - from the University of Stuttgart
• Whistling a Language - Language miniatures: whistled speech
• Gas-altered perceived voice pitch:
•  a. Helium Voice - from Ask Yahoo (linked to sound file with poor audio quality, but someone may ask about the 'Donald Duck' effect of helium)
•  b. Sulfur Hexafluoride Voice - from the University of Maryland

• Bucknell University (PA): Linguistics 105 and 110 pages. (Links to pages on lots of linguistics-related topics)
• a. Linguistics 105
• b. Linguistics 110
• c. Consonant exercises
• d. Vowel exercises
• e. Vowels/Consonants  - Clickable phonemes in a cross-section of the head - linked to from site #1; requires Shockwave; these two take a while to load, especially the consonants.
• The Mouton Interactive Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology  More clickable phonemes in a cross-section of a head; requires Shockwave plug-in. Three demos: (1) IPA pulmonic consonants and (2) cardinal vowels; (3) is on human hearing (only outer ear graphic intro [no sound] is available); worth checking out.
• Georgetown University Introduction to Linguistics  -  Links to pages on many linguistic topics, including phonetics/phonology (unfortunately the 'scripts of the world' link seems to be out of order); also links to more collections of links.
• Acoustic cues in differentiating phonemes - from UCL. Isolating acoustic cues in phoneme recognition; descriptions, sound files; good companion to chapter 11 of Fry (see (6)).
• Simplified Vowel Synthesis Interface -  from the University of Delaware. Synthesize non-nasalized monopthongal English vowels using the Klatt synthesizer. Set F0, F1, F2, and duration in ms yourself, and see what you come up with. Links to more complex CV synthesis and general synthesis interfaces.

• Zona Land - by Ed Zobel. Excellent interactive tutorials on the physics of waves (with links to other physics topics); I find them to be well-matched companions to D. B. Fry's The Physics of Speech (Cambridge). Example of things you can do at this site: draw two waves yourself then watch how they interfere with each other. VRML plug-in required for some parts. Highly recommended.
• The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music - from Glenbrook South High School. A good physics tutorial site with units on waves and decibels; this has dense and very instructive explanatory texts, along with animated graphics.
• Standing Waves and Sound - from Concordia College. Samples of some audible frequencies (100 to 5,000 Hz), along with other information on waves.
• Understanding decibels - from the Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, Cambridge Street Publishing, 1999. Web vesrion from Simon Fraser University. Technical but clear and potentially useful. With sound files.
• Decibel level demonstration - from EnviroMeasure. Compare sounds with an increasingly lower decibel level.
• Sound Pressure Levels - from CoolMath.com. Decibel level list

Speech Synthesis

• The Pattern Playback (Haskins Laboratories)
• Current speech synthesis from Haskins
• Articulatory Synthesis at Haskins
• SineWave Synthesis at Haskins
• Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies)
• YorkTalk
• comp.speech Frequently Asked Questions from the Speech Applications Group, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA.

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III. Automatic Translation

• BabelFish - machine translation by AltaVista.
• The Dialect Translator - a not too serious translator from English into various American dialects
• InterTran (tm) -  Internet Translator, is a free web translation service that can translate single words, phrases, sentences and web pages.
• Natural Language Software Registry

IV. PAGES OF LINKS

• Inventory of Internet Resources in Phonetics (SOCRATES Thematic Network in Phonetics and Speech Communication)
• Linguistics and Phonetics Worldwide (Stuttgart)
• Phonetics and speech: Some bookmarks (Vienna)
• Prosody and intonation sites (Saarbruecken; German, other languages)
• Speech research (USC)

V. VIDEOS

• Speech Research - Videos available from the Acoustical Society of America.