This page will be updated throughout the semester as needed.
(See also the resources page for more links.)
Course documents
- All handouts
- All data sets
- All homework assignments
Japanese language
- Kana charts (hiragana and katakana)
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WWWJDIC (US mirror site)
The Online Japanese Dictionary Service by Jim Breen, Monash University- Online J↔E dictionary, kanji lookup utilities, and more
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Online Japanese Accent Dictionary (OJAD)
By Nobuaki Minematsu (University of Tokyo) and the OJAD research team- Look up pitch accent of words in Tokyo Japanese; hear audio
- Get (machine-generated) pitch contours for connected speech
Phonetics
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Vowel height and backness:
X-ray video of [i e a o u]
From Peter Ladefoged's Vowels & Consonants web site at UCLA, via YouTube - Practice with consonant properties: an
interactive vocal-tract diagram
By Daniel Currie Hall, St. Mary's University -
Praat speech analysis software: Praat web site
developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam- See also the Praat resources page from Ling 520 (Fall 2025)