Useful Links

    MAIN: Ladefoged, P., & Johnson, K. (2015). A course in Phonetics, 7th ed . Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

    Book links: http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html

    Additional resources: http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/transcription%20exercises/arthur.htm

    IPA in UNICODE:

    https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm

    IPA symbols and their full names:

    https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2014/ling115/phonetics.html

    Other useful texts for Phonetics:

    Crystal, D. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Blackwell Publishing.

    Authoritative guides for English pronunciation and phonetics [Books]

    • (1) English Pronouncing Dictionary, 16th edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), or EPD 16, by Peter Roach, James Hartman, and Jane Setter.
    • (2) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 2nd edition (Hawlow, U.K.: Pearson, 2000) by John Wells
    • (3) Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) by Clive Upton, William Kretzschmar, and Rafal Konopka.

    Useful Links for the Study of English Phonetics

    Updated International Phonetic Alphabet from the IPA association website:

    https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/full-ipa-chart

    IPA Phonetics for iPhone and iPad (Application)

    https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/linguistics/resources/software/ipaphonetics/index.php

    John Maidment’s IPA FLASH CARDS (Studying tool)

    https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm

    INDEX OF SOUNDS – University of California at Los Angeles Phonetics Lab Data

    http://phonetics.ucla.edu/index/sounds.html#Anchor-ATR-49575

    John Well’s Phonetic Blog

    http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/

    Demonstration of reading passage and IPA transcription:

    http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=detail&speakerid=145

    UCLA Voice project

    http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/voiceproject/voice.html

    University of Victoria interactive IPA chart with sound clips

    https://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm

    University College London’s guide on Phonetic Symbols

    https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbolsforenglish.htm

    Gretchen McCulloch from AllThingsLinguistics (a Tumblr site) resources on phonetics and phonology

    https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/40375921441/protolinguist-resources-teaching-yourself

    Sounds of English by BBC Learning English (mostly UK English, though some good segments on vowels)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/pronunciation

    Why is phonetics studied?

    Why study phonetics?