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» Acoustics of the vowel    Experiments concerning the physical characteristics of vowels: formants and pitches (F0), formant pattern ambiguity, formant number alteration. Important for all sciences related to speech, acoutsic phonetics, speech therapy and speech recognition.    http://www.unizh.ch/neurol/psychologie/associates/maurer/vowels/index.htm

» Analytic Listening: A New Approach to Ear-Training    Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics.    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/shl9/ashby/ma.htm

» Anatomy of the vocal tract    Diagram and descriptions of the places of articulation.    http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec1/anatomy.htm

» Auditory scales of frequency representation    Overview of conversion equations and suggestions as to when it is appropriate to use Hz, semi-tones, mel, bark, and ERB.    http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/bark.htm

» Contrasted Phonology of English and Portuguese Vowels    English, Portuguese, and Spanish vowels are discussed, and possible errors of Portuguese-speaking students of English are examined.    http://www.sk.com.br/sk-voga.html

» English Conversational Grunts    Contains speech samples illustrating the phonetic diversity of non-lexical items in conversation, such as uh-huh, mm-hm, nn-hnn, nyeah, m-kay, together with discussion of their pragmatics.    http://nigelward.com/egrunts/

» Four Tones and Downtrend    Preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones.    http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/connell/downtrend/downtrend.html

» How to Pronounce "Ghoti"    Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish".    http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/phono.html

» Infography about Phonology    List of mostly print resources on phonology recommended by a professor who specializes in phonological research.    http://www.infography.com/content/365214404820.html

» Linguistic Annotation    Tools and formats for speech and text annotation    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/

» Linguistics and Phonetics Worldwide    Virtual library of linguistics and phonetics.    http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/joerg/worldwide/lingphon.html

» Magical Letter Page    Site regarding phonosemantics, the meaning of sound.    http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/

» Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish    Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English.    http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/

» Phonological Atlas of North America    Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.    http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/

» Prosody on the Web    Introduction to prosody, including chunking, focus, and pitch.    http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/pow/powin.htm

» Rutgers Optimality Archive    Contributed-content index of Optimality Theory information. Searchable or browseable data, submission and update forms, font and utility downloads, links to other collections.    http://roa.rutgers.edu/

» Socrates    Links to internet resources in phonetics and speech communication.    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/cal-top.htm

» Speech Accent Archive    Archive of foreign accents recorded in English. Phonetic transcriptions and phonological generalizations are provided.    http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

» Speech Internet Dictionary    Comprehensive dictionary of terms used in phonetics and linguistics    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/sid/sidhome.htm

» Speech Web Sites    Variety of links to mainly acoustics-related sites.    http://www.indiana.edu/~acoustic/spsites.html

» Spoken Language Corpus    Summary of work on spoken language at Göteborg University, including discussion of Modified Standard Orthography (MSO). [by Allwood et al, Göteborg University]    http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00allwoodetal-e.htm

» Studying Phonetics on the Net    List of categorized links concerning the study of spoken English.    http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html

» Talking Heads    Contains information concerning speech synthesis, vocal tract modeling, facial animation, and the McGurk effect.    http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/heads/mcgurk.html

» Teaching English Intonation with a Visual Display of Fundamental Frequency    Paper on the use of fundamental frequency displays for teaching English intonation. [by Richard Stibbard]    http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Stibbard-Intonation/

» The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary    Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.    http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

» The Kiel Intonation Modell (KIM)    Paper on "The Kiel Intonation Model (KIM), its Implementation in TTS Synthesis and its Application to the Study of Spontaneous Speech."    http://www.ipds.uni-kiel.de/forschung/kim.de.html

» The Rhythmic Speech Museum    Concerns rhythm in speech.    http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/home1bob.html

» The SpeechDat Project    Database of recordings of speech in various languages.    http://speechdat.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/SpeechDat.html

» Virtual Language Laboratory    Online language laboratory providing pronunciation practice and accent correction in a number of languages.    http://www.fonetiks.org/

» Vowels and Consonants    Collection of sound and speech examples of hundreds of languages and dialects. [by Peter Ladefoged, UCLA]    http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/