126.138: General Phonetics

General

• Syllabus -- not this year's syllabus (yet), but at least it has my office number and what not.

Announcements

• Second transcription quiz on Friday, September 29. You should be able to transcribe any one-syllable word of Canadian English.

Practice

• Broad transcription exercises (no sound)
• Consonant description drill
• Broad transcription reading practice
• Broad and narrow transcription practice (with sound)

Notes

These are notes from an earlier version of the course. They have mostly been superseded by the readings you should pick up at the Campus Copy Centre.

Other

• Fonts: lots of non-English fonts for your computer here, but particularly SIL's IPA fonts (look in the "Roman fonts" section).
• The International Phonetics Association. Don't like having to write your r's upside-down? Become a member and try to outvote the rest of the world during the next round of revisions. You can get the complete up-to-date IPA chart here too (but don't try unless you've got lots of time -- the graphic files are huge).
• Reading spectrograms
• links to other phonetics information