phonetics

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• Sound comparisons website

  
  Vagablogging :: Rolf Potts Vagabonding Blog — Authority: 500
  One of the things I end up most fascinated by when I’m traveling is accents.  I remember being a Canadian exchange student to an Italian high school, which was located in the Dolomites so they all actually spoke Ladino, and they took me on a field trip to Paris, where I had a conversation with the Serbian check out ...
  5 days ago

• Speech Problems: Learn How To Treat Stuttering

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 165
  While there are many different types of speech disorders, stuttering is one of the most commonly known and least understood of them. Stuttering can be traced back through the centuries and yet the causes and, more importantly, the cure for it remains elusive. Stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by ...
  1 week ago

• What Help Is Available For Stuttering?

  
  Naked News — Authority: 177
  Speech disorders affect millions of people worldwide, and in particular stuttering still remains an enigma today. Stuttering has been on medical records for centuries and yet there are still many unanswered questions about it. Stuttering prevents a personal from having a flowing speech pattern, they may get stuck on ...
  1 week ago

• Stanley Ellis

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Dialect expert who warned against Wearside Jack and counted 88 ways of saying gibblefisted
  2 weeks ago

• An Open Letter to Syfy Channel…

  
  Viciousblog's Weblog — Authority: 134
  Ahem. Do you think we’re stupid? Sure, history has reduced the general populace of sci-fi fans to a cliche—portrayed as eternal virgins, living in their parents’ basement, leaving a residue of Cheeto’s dust in their wake as they type away on their Alienware computers, arguing about which Dr. Who was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poll Cat: Angry Old Man

  
  Viciousblog's Weblog — Authority: 134
  The older I get, the more I find myself writing angry letters to various people and organizations. I became an angry old man around the age of 23. So, who deserves my rage next? Polls close tomorrow at midnight. View This Poll opinion  
  2 weeks ago

• The First in a Series of Occasional Linguistics Quizzes

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 122
  The fact that native Spanish speakers have difficulty pronouncing the English word "skate" indicates that English and Spanish______ a. are prescriptive languages. b. have different phonotactic constraints. c. are nearly impossible to learn. d. are not rule governed. For answer click here .
  2 weeks ago

• Linguistics Cartoon Favorites - Schwas

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 122
  susanohanian.org [IMG: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eIARuH0-x4Y/Ss-XvruIZII/AAAAAAAAA_0/cTP_x0NVR1o/s400/schwa.jpg]
  3 weeks ago

• Video: How to Learn French for Free Online with General Resources, Exercises, Games, Interactive Tools, Radio, TV, Podcasts

  
  Free Language - Lessons, Podcasts, Courses, Audio, Video, Articles, Study, Learn, Teach, Translation, Children/Kids, Teens, Adults — Authority: 110
  Summary Welcome to Free Languages whirlwind tour about learning French online for free. This is the third video screencast about learning languages for free. See all of them here . This video will take you through some top essential resources for learning French for free online. View the links below the video to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phonemetry - The Schwa

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 122
  Phoneme + Poetry = poetry about phonemes A curvaceous young phoneme called schwa Said "I never feel strong. Its bizarre! Im retiring and meek And I always sound weak But in frequency counts - Im the star!" from One Stop English I saw this poem while looking for additional IPA resources for my ...
  3 weeks ago

• The First in a Series of Occasional Linguistics Quizzes - Answer

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 122
  The correct answer to the First in a Series of Occasional Linguistics Quizzes is b . English and Spanish have different phonotactic constraints. While the /sk/ consonant cluster is perfectly acceptable to English speakers and is not usually even given a second thought, the cluster is not a psychological reality ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can you read yet, little boy?

  
  Javaline — Authority: 117
  My 4yo is interested in reading. He had some exposure to phonetics at his Montessori * daycare, and I picked up on that method at home with him. He left that daycare when he joined the public school system in September and entered Junior Kindergarten. And he likes it there…but he is not interested in sitting ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phonetics quiz

  
  Language Log — Authority: 648
  What language is this? Heres a bit more context: And some more: You might have figured out by now that its speech played backwards.  The original was part of a question that Kurt Andersen addressed to Richard Powers in an interview discussed here a few days ago: I think its especially interesting how ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reverse English

  
  Language Log — Authority: 648
  Just in case you havent seen this: I associate this sort of thing, from long ago pre-internet days, with Ian Catford, who was able to do this for new phrases more or less on demand. My experience with his displays of this ability go back so far that the preferred way to demonstrate it was to play a reel-to-reel ...
  5 weeks ago

• More excitement

  
  Language Log — Authority: 648
  In the days following my accidental Annie Lennox sighting in Edinburgh, a gorgeous picture of the honoree in her doctoral robes was published, and I have added it here ; dont miss it. And (returning to phonology) Julian Bradfield (who normally studies things like fixpoint logic and concurrent programming, and ...
  6 weeks ago

• Prisencolinensinainciusol

  
  Language Log — Authority: 648
  Before there was yaourter , there was Prisencolinensinainciusol , an amazing 1972 double-talk proto-rap by Adriano Celentano , channeling the Elvis of some parallel universe: Heres the earlier (?) black-and-white sound-stage version, with a nice harmonica solo at the end: And a more recent TV version, in which ...
  6 weeks ago

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