A Course in Phonetics UC Berkeley Linguistics

Extra material

0. Using the "Course in Phonetics" Web site

Audio examples | Homework exercises | Web recorder

Sponsorship - Thanks to UC Berkeley Linguistics for hosting this site.

1. Phonetic illustrations - Some of the sounds of the world's languages

indexed by language | phonetic property | geography

2. Transcription exercises - with a focus on dialects of English

Five Sentences in different accents

Additional sentences spoken in different English accents

Southern USA | Dublin (Irish) | Edinburgh (Scottish) | London | New Zealand

The complete story of Arthur the Rat. American Accent | British Accent

3. Images of the speaking vocal tract

Ken Stevens cineflorography

MRI from the Univerisity of Oxford Phonetics Lab

MRI from the SAIL at University of Southern California