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Anthropology 208: Linguistics

Phonetics and Phonology websites

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/practice/prelim.htm
    This site allows you to practice simple phonetic transcription.
  7. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/phthong.228/phthong228.html
    This is another site where you can practice phonetic transcription.
  8. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/accents_spellingreform.htm
    This article discusses spelling reform and phonology.
  9. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
    This website contains instructions for using IPA Unicode symbols.
Word Formation websites

  1. 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

  1. 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
  2. “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/info/ling-faqs-endanger.cfm
  3. "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
  4. “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
  5. “Suite for Ebony and Phonics” by John Rickford.
    Available on the web: http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/SuiteForEbonyAndPhonics.html

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