Anthropology 200: Linguistics
Phonetics and Phonology websites
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http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html
This is the official IPA site. It provides a downloadable IPA chart,
and also access to sounds files which accompany the data in the Handbook
of the IPA.
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http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/
chapter1.html
This UCLA site also gives you access to the IPA chart. If you click on the symbols,
you can listen to how they sound.
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http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index/
language.html
This site, also part of the UCLA phonetics lab site, allows you to hear interesting
sounds/contrasts from languages around the world.
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Edanhall/phonetics/sammy.html
An interactive sagittal section. It allows you to manipulate the lips, tongue,
soft palate and vocal cords and see what sound you get (in IPA symbols).
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http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html
This site allows you to download free phonetic fonts designed by the Summer Institute
of Linguistics.
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http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/practice/prelim.htm
This site allows you to practice simple phonetic transcription.
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/phthong.228/phthong228.html
This is another site where you can practice phonetic transcription.
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http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/accents_spellingreform.htm
This article discusses spelling reform and phonology.
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http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
This website contains instructions for using IPA Unicode symbols.
Word Formation websites
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http://www.americandialect.org/woty.html
This part of the American Dialect Society Website gives information about the
"Word of the Year" voting since 1990.
Links to articles for class discussion
- Four Successful Indigenous Language Programs, by Dawn B. Stiles Chapter 21, Teaching Indigenous Languages,
edited by Jon Reyhner (pp. 148-262). Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona University.
Available on the web: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL_21.html
- “What does it mean to say a language is endangered?” Written by Anthony C. Woodbury, edited by Betty Birner.
Available on the website of the Linguistic Society of America:
http://www.lsadc.org/faq/index.php?aaa=endangered.htm
- “Language Evolution Or Dying Traditions? The State of American Dialects”, by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes.
American Language Review 2000. vol 4, #3.
Available on the web at:
http://www.languagemagazine.com/internetedition/mj00/wolfram.html
- "Sex, Lies and Conversation” by Deborah Tannen. The Washington Post June 24, 1990.
Available on the web at:
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/sexlies.htm
- “Apologies: What It Means to Say 'Sorry' ,” by Deborah Tannen. The Washington Post, August 23, 1998.
Available on the web at:
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/post082398.htm
- “Suite for Ebony and Phonics” by John Rickford.
Available on the web:
http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/SuiteForEbonyAndPhonics.html
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January 10, 2005