Pronunciation and Phonetics Links

There are a lot of links here—too many for one person to keep up with. I would very much appreciate any feedback (mdmorrissey@t-online.de) about broken links or other information about the relative usefulness of these sites. Many of these links are from Eva Easton’s excellent website at http://eleaston.com/.

American English

American English University of Tampere
American English David Newton
American English William Labov
American English Tim Morris
American English H.L. Mencken
American English Cambridge History of English & American Literature
American English 1848
American English course outline / Anna Fenyvesi
North American English: Phonological Atlas Univ. of Pennsylvania
What is the Official Language of the U.S.? U.S. English
Language Policy in Early 19-th C. America ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs

Sounds of English Sharon Widmayer
Sounds of English spokenamericanenglish
Consonant Sounds KayLyn
Vowel Sounds George L. Dillon
Vowel & Consonant Sounds Peter Ladefoged
Minimal Pairs Charles I. Kelly
Minimal Pairs Adam Rado
Linking American Accent Training

http://pronunciation.englishclub.com/
- has a useful short introduction to word stress, sentence stress and linking.
http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa110997.htm
- demonstrates the function of sentence stress rather well.
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/
- minimal pairs, tongue twisters etc.

Dictionary American Heritage

Dialects audio / ukans.edu/~idea
Dialects René Kager
Dialects FAST
Dialects DARE
Sound Samples voiceconnection.com
Sound Samples thevoicebook.com
Sound Samples braintracksaudio.com

Dialects Evolution Publishing
Dialects American Dialect Society
Dialects audio / ukans.edu/~idea
Dialects See-Young Cho
Dialects William Labov
Dialects Karen Jamback
Dialects us.english.uga.edu
Dialects geocities.com/Broadway/1906
Dialects uwm.edu
Dialects quizzes / American Regional Dictionary

African American Bryan McLucas
African American John Baugh
African American Gullah / hyde.park.uga.edu
Boston Adam Gaffin
Buffalo Dan Tasman
Philadelphia Claudio Salvucci
Mid Atlantic NY, NJ, Delaware, Maryland
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Rhode Island
Texas rice.edu
Texas omni.cc.purdue.edu
Slang Slanguage
Slang FAST
Yiddish English

Poems Ohio Univ.
Poems Favorite Poem Project
Poems poets reciting their own work / poets.org
"Little Orphan Annie" James Whitcomb Riley
"The Road Not Taken" recited by Robert Frost
"Stopping by the Woods Robert Frost

Voice of America
B.F. Skinner B. F. Skinner Foundation

Irish English

Seamus Heaney reads his poetry
Audio Samples voicebank.ie

British English

Alphabet audio / Animated Alphabet
Grammar: Parts of Speech audio / English Space
Material for UK English Teachers Teachit
Learn English British Broadcasting Service
Learn English British Council
Learn English Anthony Hughes

Accents John Mullan
Cockney Jeremy Alderton
Cockney fun-with-words
Cockneyfication of RP phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells
Estuary English phon.ucl.ac.uk
Lancashire Dialect nyt.co.uk
London Slang slanguage.com
London Teenage English hd.uib.no
Norfork geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5564
North Stafordshire Dialect David M. Bloor
Sedgley sedgleymanor.com
Tyneside geordiepride.demon.co.uk

Pronunciation history / Zoe Caldwell
Pronunciation audio
Pronunciations: Vowels

The Alphabet Animated Alphabet
Grammar: Parts of Speech English Space
Phonology Course Stephen Luscombe
Phonetics phonetiks.org
Minimal Pairs John Higgins
Sample Words English Channel
Elizabethan English

National Sound Archive British Library
Oral History Interviews Univ. of Aberdeen
Audio Samples evansobrien.co.uk
Audio Samples excellentvoice.co.uk
Audio Samples britvoice.co.uk
Audio Samples lipservice.co.uk
English - Multilingual Dictionary Allwords
BBC: Audio-Video
BBC: World Service
Bible Jack Bradley
Cafe Rene
Literature Norton
Poetry Favorite Poem Project / Olivia Milward

British vs. American

History Library of Congress
Differences & Influence of Change FAST
Differences Univ. of Sussex
Differences Kenneth Beare
Differences Frankfurt International School
Differences Bruce Longman
Differences Jason Hofmann
Differences Karen's Linguistic Issues
Differences Univ. of Sussex
Spelling Susan Jones
Spelling H.L. Mencken
Vocabulary Jeremy Smith
Vocabulary Mike Etherington
Vocabulary Mark Glicksman
Vocabulary Chris Rae
Vocabulary Brain Bank
Vocabulary english2american.com
Vocabulary accomodata.co.uk
Vocabulary Terry Gliedt
Vocabulary geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2284
Vocabulary ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron
Vocabulary John Cletheroe
Vocabulary Peter Burden
Vocabulary Craig McCormick
Vocabulary FAST
Vocabulary peevish.co.uk/slang
Vocabulary Japanese-English
Vocabulary Kryss Katsiavriades
Vocabulary Susan Jones
Vocabulary Portuguese-English / Ricardo Schuetz
Vocabulary Travel Further
Vocabulary auto /team.net/sol
Vocabulary
Vocabulary railway / trainweb.org
Vocabulary cooking / Global Gourmet
Vocabulary food & cooking /FAST
Vocabulary idioms / Jouni Merikari
Vocabulary music / Nina Gilbert

On pronunciation

Errors of Speakers of Other Languages Ted Power
Introduction to Linguistics: Phonetics & Phonology Johanna E. Rubba
Introduction to Linguistics: Phonetics & Phonology William James Idsardi
Linguistic Structure of Modern English: Phonetics & Phonology Johanna E. Rubba
The Blending Slide Trish Uselman
English Phonesthemes Benjamin H. Shisler
Phonological Atlas of North America Univ. of Pennsylvania
Schwa in Phonological Theory Marc van Oostendorp
Childhood Speech Development Acronyms Ed Chapman
Voice Quality .ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/frmst1.htm

Phonetics, phonetic transcription

General Phonetics Kevin Russell
English Phonetics University College London
Phonetics Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland
Phonetics Peter Ladefoged
Phonetics/Phonemics John M. Murphy
Phonetics/Phonology: Introduction Univ. of Texas
Phonology Stirling Univ.

IPA: Reading Practice .umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell
IPA International Phonetic Ass.
IPA audio / John D. Battenburg & Judy Swanson
IPA audio / antimoon
IPA Braille / Claude Chaunier
IPA French / Aris Xanthos
IPA video / Independent Learning Centre, HK
IPA Independent Learning Centre, HK
IPA Fonts SIL
SAMPA John Wells
SAMPA American English / John Wells

Phonetic Fonts Yamada
Phonetic Symbols John Maidment
Phonetic Symbols Lingolex
Phonetics audio / ead.univ-angers.fr/~menan/cerel
Phonetic Symbols on the Computer Karen's Linguistic Issues
Pronunciation Symbols Merriam-Webster
Pronunciation Symbols: RP World Wide Words
Pronouncing Dictionary: North American English CMU

Pronunciation practice

Alphabet audio / Geoff Taylor
Sounds of English audio / Univ. of Iowa
Sounds of English Sharon Widmayer & Holly Gray
Vowel Sounds audio / Susan Gould
Vowel Sounds audio / Steve Chadwick
Relaxed Pronunciation Waldinei L. Cruz
Relaxed Pronunciation Ben Holmberg
Stress Patterns Carl Storz
Stress Patterns Kathleen Hanson
Stress Patterns word stress/ English CLUB
Stress Patterns sentence stress/ English CLUB

Exercises esl.about.com
Exercises Arnoud Thuss,
Exercises Kenneth Beare
Exercises cdi.ucla.edu
Exercises eslcafe
Exercises esl-lounge
Exercises Quia!
Exercises minimal pairs / Charles I. Kelly

Pronunciation American Accent Training / Ann Cook
Pronunciation Arnoud Thuss

Basic Phrases children´s voices / Bernadotte School, Denmark
Useful Phrases Patsula

Beginner's & Intermediate English Academia Boston
Specialized English specialized.english.net

Exercises John Wong
Exercises ESL Listening Lab / Randall S. Davis
Exercises Gary Buck
Exercises Andy Gillet
Exercises English, Baby
Exercises John Wong
Exercises Jim Duber
Exercises Charlies Williams
Exercises English Tapestry / Todd Beuckens
Exercises Interlink Language Center
Exercises Language Centre / Hong Kong
Exercises John Liang & Sydney Rice
Exercises Sound Advantage
Exercises Speak Good English / Singapore
Exercises #1 / Talk It Up!
Exercises #2 / Talk It Up!
Exercises #3 / Talk It Up!
Exercises Talk It Through
Exercises Kenneth Beare
Exercises KXTV Channel 10
Exercises Radio24 Italy
Exercises TOEIC in France
Exercises getrealenglish.com

Topics
Topics CNN San Francisco
Animal Sounds Jouni Paakkinen
Conversations Rong-Chang Li
Cultural Debates video / Tom Snyder Productions
Dentist English Language Centre / HK
Education NC State Univ.
Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology
The Great Lakes Professor Frog
Health: Disease Prevention ultraprevention.com
Identify the Scientist Australia
Listening to Interviews commercial site - free trial / e VIEWS
Monthly Idiom Comenius
Science & Health Brain Pop
Social Issues ladybuglive.com
Space: NASA Town Hall
History of the Telephone
Talk Radio Archives media.org
Twelve American Voices Yale Univ. Press
Listening Links Jonathan Bowen

Business English
Finding the Right Job Randall S. Davis
Telephone: Complaints English Channel
Telephone: Job Opening Paolo Rossetti
Telephone: Work Christopher Yukna

Tongue twisters

Chants for Young Children EFL Playhouse
Tongue Twister: W audio
Tongue Twister: TH Okanagan Univ. College
Tongue Twisters: L & R Okanagan Univ. College
Tongue Twisters Michael Reck
Tongue Twisters problem consonants
Tongue Twisters C.T. Staley
Tongue Twisters Internet TESL Journal

Varieties of English

English around the World course / Bert Vaux
English around the World Ask Oxford
English around the World Annika Hohenthal
English around the World Johannes Reese
English around the World courses.nus.edu.sg
English around the World uni-saarland.de/fak4/norrick
English around the World Ryuko Kubota & Lori Ward
English around the World Univ. of Auckland
English around the World Martin Kich
English around the World writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej
English around the World UNE
English around the World Devi Sarinjeive
English around the World Barbara Wallraff
English around the World fccl.ksu.ru/winter.99/lang_typ

Audio Samples Igor Merfert
Audio Samples Timothy Bowyer
Audio Samples Univ. of Arizona
Audio Samples Tele-talent
Audio Samples International Dialects of English / Paul Meier
Audio Samples foreign accents / George Mason Univ.
Audio Samples braintracksaudio.com

Irish English

British English

Tongue twisters

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