I. Anatomy of the vocal tract
- Labeled vocal-tract drawings
- From MIT Open CourseWare
- From the Visible Human Project (via Kevin Russell)
- MRI videos of the articulators during speech (on YouTube)
- Mandarin(?) Chinese; good-quality video
- English and Persian, from the Beckman Institute, UIUC
- No audio, but good-quality video
II. The properties of sounds
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Practice with consonant properties: an
interactive vocal-tract diagram
By Daniel Currie Hall, St. Mary's University -
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 -
MRI videos of individual consonants and vowels
From the Speech Production and Articulation Knowledge Group, University of Southern California -
Tips on
observing your own speech to see what phonetic properties a
sound has
By Elliott Moreton, UNC Chapel Hill
III. Phonetic symbols
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Downloadable
IPA charts in PDF format
From the International Phonetic Association - IPA charts with clickable audio files
- IPA chart From Ladefoged & Johnson's A Course in Phonetics web site at UC Berkeley
- IPA chart from Jonathan Dowse
- Examples of American English vowels
- Sounds, symbols and some discussion
- "Color vowel chart" — color names as vowel category mnemonics
- IPA transcription practice by Kevin Russell, U. of Manitoba
Last update and link check: August 2024