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...

Stress-sensitive quantity alternation is commonplace in the Uralic languages and many of the Germanic languages in and around the Scandinavia region, but few reports have detailed similar types of alternation in Native American languages. This study offers a quantitative analysis of the complementary length alternation between tonic vowels and post-tonic consonants in two generations of speaker...

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...

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The UPSID database, put together by Ian Maddieson and colleagues at UCLA, is a valuable material for Phonetics research and teaching. Unfortunately, its current computer implementation is oversimplified, preventing a wide access by the Phonetics community and limiting the ways in which it can be exploited. In this paper we present an on-going project called Web-UPSID, consisting of a simple but...

This article concerns sound aesthetic preferences for European foreign languages. We investigated the phonetic-acoustic dimension of linguistic pleasure to describe “music” found in The Romance languages, French, Italian, and Spanish, take a lead when people talk about melodious language – music-like effects (a.k.a., phonetic chill). On other end melodiousness spectrum are German Arabic that of...

This article provides a sociophonetic analysis of General South African English /l/, based on the naturalistic speech 50 male and female L1-speakers this variety (SAfE), all from Cape Town ranging 18-82 years age. Emphasis falls testing descriptions provided by impressionistic literature so-called ‘colour’ two main allophones phoneme i.e. those in initial final positions; determining whether th...