Phonetics review links for phonology courses

I. The parts of the vocal tract

• Labeled vocal tract drawing from the SIL Mexico web site

• X-ray films of the articulators in action, from the X-Ray Film Database Project
  (Scroll to the bottom of their page for the film clips)

II. The properties of sounds

• Practice with consonant properties: an interactive vocal-tract diagram
  By Daniel Currie Hall, U. of Toronto

• Vowel height and backness: X-ray video of [i e a o u]
  From Peter Ladefoged's Vowels & Consonants web site at UCLA

• Tips on observing your own speech to see what phonetic properties a sound has
  By Elliott Moreton, UNC Chapel Hill

III. Phonetic symbols

• Downloadable IPA charts in PDF format
  From U. of Victoria

• IPA charts with clickable audio files
  • IPA chart from Paul Meier Dialect Services (scroll down to see charts)
  • IPA chart from Jonathan Dowse
  • IPA chart from Peter Ladefoged's Vowels & Consonants web site at UCLA

• IPA transcription practice by Kevin Russell, U. of Manitoba
  • One-syllable words
  • Two-syllable words
  • Longer words