Welcome to Phonetics & Linguistics
What's On This Week:
28 March |
Seminar, Linguistics Series |
'More Remarks on Control' A. Roussou |
where: Room 5, 20 Gordon Sq when: 4pm |
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Features
Web Tutorial: Voicing Basics Learn the basics of the concept of voicing for consonants with this interactive walk-through.
Word Grammar Word Grammar is a theory of language structure developed from Systemic Functional Grammar and daughter Dependency Grammar which Richard (Dick) Hudson has been building since the early 1980s.
Linguistics in the News
Sopranos compromise intelligibility for power
10 Jan 2004. Physicists in New South Wales, Australia have measured the frequency response of the vocal tract of operatic sopranos singing vowels at high pitches. (
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Child abuse in the name of better English pronunciation
3 Jan 2004. A shocking story in the UK Independent newspaper about Korean parents forcing medical surgery on their children in the mistaken idea that it will improve their pronunciation of English. (
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