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The UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Language Structure and Pronunciation.

Welcome to Phonetics & Linguistics

PorticoWhat's On This Week:

28 January Seminar,
Linguistics Series
'More Remarks on Control'
A. Roussou
where: Room 5, 20 Gordon Sq
when: 4pm

>See entire events schedule

Features

Tutorial 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. (read more)

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. (read more)

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