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The International Phonetic Alphabet

Online phonetics course
from University  of Lausanne, Switzerland; translated from French.

Speech Internet dictionary home page
Concise definitions of technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science and allied disciplines.

Speech Accent Archive
This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.

Varieties of English

Stress system database
From the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. Information on the patterns of primary (word) stress in some 190 languages.

Online demonstrations /movie clips

Vocal cords vibrating

Articulators in motion

Methods of examining the larynx

Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of speech movements

The vOICe Sonification Applet
Convert graphics to sound and vice-versa. Fun and instructive!

Tutorials and topic pages

Sound machines
Interactive tutorials on vowels, tones, transcription. Some programs require MS Internet Explorer.

Interactive Sagittal Section

The vocal tract
Illustration and definition of parts.

Respiration and airstream mechanisms

SIPhTrA voicing basics (tutorial)

Plosives 1: basics (tutorial)

Plosives 2: Voicing onset time and aspiration   (tutorial)

Unstressed vowels

The distinctive vowel sounds of British and American English

Prosody on the Web
(Tutorials on chunking, focus, and pitch)

Multiple articulations

Coarticulation

Types of phonation: creaky, breathy, harsh, falsetto

Sound waves

Speech Analysis (tutorial)

Spectogram Reading
From CSLU (Center for Spoken Language Understanding)

Some low-tech means of observing your articulators
from UNC-Chaple Hill