This page will be updated throughout the semester. New items are marked NEW: when first added.
(See also the resources page for more links.)
Course documents
Japanese language
- Kana charts (hiragana and katakana)
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WWWJDIC (US mirror site),
the Online Japanese Dictionary Service by Jim Breen, Monash University
Online J<->E dictionary, kanji lookup utilities, and more- Home site at Monash University
Phonetics and phonology
- Vowel height and backness:
X-ray video of [i e a o u]
From Peter Ladefoged's Vowels & Consonants web site at UCLA - Practice with consonant properties: an
interactive vocal-tract diagram
By Daniel Currie Hall, U. of Toronto -
Praat speech analysis software: Praat web site
developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam- See also the Praat resources page from Ling 520 (Fall 2010)
Historical linguistics and modern dialects
- Modern Japanese dialects -- examples and links