Weblinks
Practical Phonetics and Phonology 2e
We list here just a very small selection of the best (and most permanent) of the numerous websites concerned with phonetics now available on the Internet. By going to these, you can gain access to an enormous amount of background information on phonetics, phonology, acoustics, accents, and much more. All you need do is click on any of the links below. See also p. 290 of Practical Phonetics and Phonology.
Perhaps you're interested in experimenting with speech analysis programs such as WASP or Praat (both available free of charge). These will enable you, for example, to discover the nature of your intonation patterns, and then allow you to synthesise new speech melodies and superimpose them on your original utterances. You can also go to sites with collections of accents and dialects (including Estuary English), read a wide selection of articles on pronunciation, find the original recordings of the cardinal vowels, watch videos of vowel and consonant articulations and of the vocal folds in action.
All this is just one click away!
If you're particularly interested in downloading and installing phonetic fonts, you'll find some links in the separate section below.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/
a wealth of material, including WASP, fonts and keyboards, Estuary English, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, accents and much more
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/sid/sidn.htm
University College London phonetics department, good phonetic/phonology glossary
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/
John Wells's home page with daily phonetic blog; also has much useful information on fonts, accents, transcription and spelling reform
http://scripts.sil.org/Home
SIL, another page with a wide range of free Unicode phonetic fonts
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
International Phonetic Association
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
British Library sound archive, large collection of UK English accents and dialects
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
BBC website with UK dialect material
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/
British Library, UK dialect material
http://web.ku.edu/idea/
International Dialects of English Archive, a collection of world varieties of English, also non-native accent samples. Many with transcripts.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/uclaplab.html
UCLA phonetics laboratory, much material of a scientific nature, including videos of the vocal folds
ttp://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/ contents.html
Peter Ladefoged's ‘click and listen’ IPA chart and recordings of the cardinal vowels
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat
very widely used speech analysis program
http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/staff/tench/tswords.html
practical audio course for transcription of English words
http://www.let.uu.nl/~Rene.Kager/personal/TV1/Pho_tools.htm
interactive exercises, demos, resources, lists of websites
http://www.let.uu.nl/~Rene.Kager/personal/TV2/accents.htm
material on English varieties, British and world-wide
http://www.voicedoctor.net/media/anatomy/anatview.html
views of the larynx
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/phonation.htm
simplified illustrations of the speech mechanism
Phonetic Fonts
For specific information on phonetic fonts, with a large range of possibilities, you are recommended to click on the following link: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/phonetics