Resources

COURSE RESOURCES on Canvas

• SoJ Canvas site
• Assigned readings posted to Canvas in Modules > Course Readings
• Course reserve readings, maintained by UNC Libraries

JAPANESE RESOURCES

Japanese dictionaries and learners' resources

• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Online Japanese Dictionary Service (US mirror site) — online J ↔ E dictionary, kanji lookup utilities, and more
  • Home site at Monash University, Australia

• Cutlet romanization/transliteration converter, by Paul McCann — converts Japanese orthography into Hepburn and kunrei romanization

• 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

• Reading Tutor, a translation and kanji->kana site by Kawamura Yoshiko, Kitamura Tatsuya, and Hobara Rei.

Japanese web browsing and computing

• REQUIRED: Setting up your web browser to display Japanese fonts
  Click HERE to confirm that your browser is configured for Japanese.
  • General info on setting up a web browser to read Japanese by Christopher Bolton, Williams College (examples show Macintosh, but general principles apply in Windows as well)

• OPTIONAL: Typing Japanese characters on your computer
  • Typing in Japanese in Windows 10 by Coto Academy
  • Typing in Japanese on the Mac by Christopher Bolton, Williams College

Resources for the Genki Japanese textbook

• Official Genki web site
• Genki-related study resources, from NIHONGO eな

LINGUISTICS RESOURCES

General linguistics resources

• "Outline of linguistics," from Wikipedia
• "Index of linguistics articles," from Wikipedia — useful as a glossary

Phonetics and phonology

• My most recent LING 101 slides on the phonetics of (American English):
  • Consonant symbols, terms, and properties
  • Vowel symbols, terms, and properties

• Information about how to type IPA phonetic symbols
• Phonetics review links
  • IPA chart (note that we classify [a] as central, not front [more on this])
  • Links to audio examples of non-English consonants and vowels

• 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 2022)