Educational Resources:
Web Tutorials
The Department has been involved in a number of funded projects concerned with education in Phonetics and Speech Communication. These projects and other work have led to some teaching materials that are accessible over the web: the Web Tutorials on this page. If you complete a tutorial, please take the time to
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Phonetics
- Voicing Basics
This tutorial introduces the basics of the concept of voicing for consonants.
- Plosives (Basics)
This tutorial introduces the basic facts about the articulation of plosives.
- Plosives (VOT and aspiration)
This tutorial on plosives deals with aspiration and voicing.
- Prosody on the Web
Three mini tutorials about prosodic functions and prosodic forms. Covering: 1. Introduction to chunking, 2. An introduction to focus, 3. An introduction to pitch changes.
- Online Intonation
This tutorial provides practice in associating the sound of an intonation pattern with a commonly used system of notating intonation in English.
- Phonetic Flash
This group of exercises is intended for anyone who wishes to improve their knowledge of phonetic symbols.
- Sound Machines
Some of the sound machines below will only operate correctly with Internet Explorer (version 4 or later). Some also need the phonetic font Ipa-sams Uclphon1 SILSophiaL to be installed on your computer (click here to get this font and others). If you do not have this font, the phonetic transcriptions will appear as ordinary characters.
- The Vowel Machine
The Vowel Machine will help you to recognise English vowel sounds. You will see words in ordinary spelling or in phonetic transcription. Your task is to choose the word you hear.
- Transcriber
Transcriber is a program which presents words in sound or in spelling or both. Your task is to type in a phonetic transcription of the words.
- TONI
TONI is a program designed to help you recognise the nuclear tones of English.
- PLATO
PLATO is a program where you have to find the nuclear syllable in sentences which you hear.
- Vgrid
Vgrid gives you practice at using the vowel quadrilateral.
- Analytic Listening Exercises
Exercises designed to enable you to recognise basic phonetic distinctions.
Hearing
- Loudness
This tutorial provides an extensive introduction to our sensation of the oudness of sounds.
- Pitch
This tutorial provides an extensive introduction to our sensation of the Pitch of sounds.
Math
- Logarithms
This tutorial provides an elementary introduction to the mathematics of Logarithms. Logarithms are useful in many areas of speech and hearing science.
Authoring your own Web Tutorials
You may be interested in trying out the
WTUTOR system for building web tutorials. This allows you to deliver interactive teaching through the web using only word processing and other freely available software.
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