The Special Issue (SI) “Phonologically constrained variability in L1 and L2 production and perception” contains a set of papers that substantially expand upon selected oral presentations at the conference Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI), held in Lisbon in 2013. The papers converge in addressing a thematically coherent topic of current theoretical interest and importance at the interfac...

This paper presents a set of phonetics teaching resources as modules in a more generic framework for web-based tutoring in the areas of phonetics, multimedia communication and spoken language research. Currently the toolkit consists of standalone interactive modules and lecture notes on a number of areas of phonetics, phonology and the lexicography of spoken language. The interactive presentati...

1 Introduction In addition to the existing computer programs that have been designed specifically for foreign language pronunciation (or intonation) training, a number of software packages are available today that can be used in phonetics classes, although they have not been developed for this particular purpose. The aim of this paper is to briefly analyse a speech recognition program and to co...

Due to less attention the English phonetics improvements was paid by high school teaching, many Chinese university freshmen lack of most basic knowledge, for example, their verbal continuous reading is not coherent and incomplete blasting clear, some even do know how spell words correctly according phonetics. This situation has made negative effects on China’s EFL especially improvement listeni...