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Bill Practical Phonetics Ear Training (John Maidment)
Materials posted for an ear training course.

English Consonants in IPA (Kevin Russell)
This pages introduces the symbols with example words.

English is Soup! A Phonics Resource for ESL Adults
Downloadable PDF files: Vowels and Vowel Blends, Vowels Sounds with R, ...

English Pronunciation Tip of the Day (John Maidment)
Useful for ESL teachers. Maybe also useful for advanced ESL students in the UK.

English Vowels Compared to Portuguese (Ricardo Schütz)
A phonological comparative analysis of vowels between English & Portuguese

English Vowels in IPA (Canadian English) (Kevin Russell)
The symbols have been used in a very close to the way they should be used in IPA

English with an accent (Rias van den Doel)
Experiment investigating native-speaker reactions to Dutch English

Introduction to English Phonetics - Online Book (University of Lausanne)
Sound Production, Consonants and Vowels, IPA, Fricatives, Laterals, ...

IPA Phones and Phonemes of English (George Dillon)
You can download a 6 Mb zip of this whole directory for offline studying.

Minimal Pairs, Listening Lists and More (Caroline Bowen)
For phonological and articulation therapy

My 100 Most Mispronounced Words in English (Steve Norman)
PDF File: afternoon, although, answer, anybody, aren't, Asisa, biology, ...

Online Intonation - For teachers of ESL, not students. (John Maidment)
Exercises in JavaScript to help you learn a commonly-used system of notation.

Phonetic Flash (John Maidment)
Improve your knowledge of phonetic symbols.

Phthong for LIN100 (Henry Rogers, Michael Stairs)
A tutorial for the phonemic transcription of English

Producing Phonetic Transcriptions on your Computer (Karen's Linguistics)
PDF file. A straightforward guide to using IPA phonetic symbols software.

Pronunciation Diagnostic Test (Susan C. Anthony)
Model the sentence once, as the student repeats, listen for errors.

Pronunciation Problems for Brazilian Students (Karen Barnes)
Problems that Brazilian students face with the pronunciation of English.

Seminole Community College's ESOL Lesson Plans - Pronunciation
Downloadable PDF files.

SIL IPA Fonts - for both Macintosh and Windows
SIL IPA Fonts 1.2 & SIL IPA93 Fonts 2.0 are free.

www.englicious.com - Thad's Vacation Plans (Dmitrij Lebed)
A 'th' pronunciation practice dialog(ue).

www.englicious.com - The Thinker's Sister (Dmitrij Lebed)
A 'th' pronunciation practice dialog(ue), and a not-too-shabby poem, to boot.

www.speak-read-write.com - Minimal Pair Lists (Sally Jennings)
mat pat bat cat rat fat that hat knat / mad pad bad cad rad fad had / etc.

www.speech-language-therapy.com - Minimal Pair Lists
British spelling used.

www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com - English Past Tense Pronunciation (Debra Garcia)
How to teach pronunciation of past tense endings for regular verbs.

www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com - Teaching Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds (Debra Garcia)
How to teach the concept of voiced and unvoiced sounds.

www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com - Tongue Twisters for Pronunciation (Debra Garcia)
Better Botter's Better Batter, Betty Baotter had some butter, ...

z_Correct Pronunciation: A Prescriptive Dictionary (L. Craig Schoonmaker - 1999)
1,700+ word list. Probably should only be used by ESL students with a teacher.

z_Institute of Phonetic Sciences, Amsterdam
Software, Publications and Speech on the Web
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z_Minimal Pairs - 40 Minimal Pairs Listed (Lucy Silver)
bleed-plead, cap-cat, came-cane, know-dough, fast-vast, gnat-mat, ...

z_z_Internatioanl Dialects of English Archive (IDEA)
Accents of North America, Accents of Europe, Accents of Asia, ... in MP3
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z_z_Phonemic Hangman (Pete MacKichan)
For teachers of phonetics. 7 wrong guesses and you lose. (JavaScript)
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z_z_Phonetic Script Typewriter (For Unicode Fonts)) (Pete MacKichan)
Requires a newer browser (not Netscape 4.x or Opera 5) with JavaScript enabled.
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z_z_Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
Might be useful when creating a pronunciation lesson or if you are having your students write poetry.
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z_z_Speech Internet Dictionary [FRAME] (John Maidment)
Technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science
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z_z_z_44 Sounds of English (Douglas Corin)
2 PDF files, one with the script and one with practice sheets.
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z_z_z_Education Week on the Web: Phonics & Whole Language
A Brief background essay an an important education issue in America.
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z_z_z_Minimal Pairs for English RP - A Large Collection (John Higgins)
Pairs of words whose pronunciation differs at only one segment.
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z_z_z_www.traininglinkonline-germany.de - TESOL online courses / phonetics course (Jackie Sykes)
Preliminary Certificate of Educational Studies in TESOL
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z_z_zzz_Nei's Homepage
Brazilian English Teacher and His Project on American Relaxed Pronunciation
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z_z_zzzz_English Corner Shop - Pronunciation - R vs L (Janna Raikhman)
A list of 24 minimal pairs: play-pray, lay-ray, flame-frame, glue-grew, ...
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zz-www.theenglishprofessor.com - Numbers 2 (Patrick Kinch)
Comprehension exercises with numbers.

zz_Phonetic Fonts
You can downlaod fonts for Mac or Windows. Keywords: IPA, Phonetic Alphabet

zz_The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
You can download a GIF image of the entire alphabet.



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