Links to linguistic and phonetic glossaries and explanations

Many terms from linguistics and from phonetic and phonological theory are used in this document without explanation. Instead of setting up a glossary of terms myself, I refer to some sites on Internet where you might find some clarifications:

• IPA symbols chart
• Spoken IPA chart, by Jonathan Dowse
• Spoken IPA chart, by the late Peter Ladefoged
• Spoken IPA chart, by Paul Meier
• Wikipedia: IPA vowel chart with audio
• History of the International Phonetic Alphabet with Additional Resources
• Cued Articulation
• IPA symbols, and ASCII transcription systems compared
  
  • Evan Kirshenbaum
  • SAMPA (by John Wells)
  • X-SAMPA (by John Wells)
  • Miguel Carrasquer
    (requires subscription to Yahoo discussion list phoNet).
• X-Sampa / CXS, about X-Sampa, with IPA converter.
• Differences between the IPA and North American vowel charts (University of Manitoba).
• History of the IPA (wikipedia)
  History of the IPA (answers.com).
• IPA bij Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
• Cardinal Vowels:
  Daniel Jones: samples recorded in 1956
  The Cardinal Vowels with Daniel Jones (full set of 18 vowels)
• Cardinal vowels by John Wells, Susan Ramsaran and Peter Ladefoged.
• IPA vowel symbols for British English in dictionaries
• Université de Lausanne, Intro to phonetics, with sound samples.
• Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
  Downloadable Language recordings, also of Portuguese.
• Index of sounds
• Praat: doing phonetics by computer, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink.
• Formants in vowels in several languages
• Phonation
  • Manitoba
  • Uni Stuttgart
  • UCD Dublin
  • York University, Canada
  • UNC
  • UCSB
• Unicode code charts, including one for phonetic symbols.
• Glossary which is part of an on-line phonology course.
• Phonetics Glossary, referenced from here.
• Phonology
• Fonologia histórica do Português
• Old books about Portuguese orthography and phonology and phonetics.
• 8 odd sounds from other languages … that you could never make except you probably already have. A live rendition of the article “8 bizarre sounds you’ve probably made without knowing it” from TheWeek.com. By James Harbeck.
• Ensinar Português na Andaluzia, Teaching Português in Andalusia. Lots of useful links for people teaching or learning Portuguese, also outside Andalusia.
• Estúdio Raposa, audioblogue do Luís Gaspar.
• The International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode, by John Wells, 2012.

Of course, you might want to find your own references using search engines like Google, AltaVista or Bing.

Comments may be sent to me, Ruud Harmsen.