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Welcome to the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. For over half a century, the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory has collected recordings of hundreds of languages from around the world, providing source materials for phonetic and phonological research, of value to scholars, speakers of the languages, and language learners alike. The materials on this site comprise audio recordings illustrating phonetic structures from over 200 languages with phonetic transcriptions, plus scans of original field notes where relevant. The archive in its current form is a self-standing website. Eventually all the data here will be incorporated into the comprehensive UCLA Digital Library where it will be maintained as a permanent resource for future generations.

Can access through index of languages, index of sounds or map index. Includes sounds to accompany Ladefoged's textbooks, A Course in Phonetics 5th Ed, Vowels and Consonants, 2nd. Ed. This page (Phonetics Lab Data) is the phonetics teaching materials compiled by Peter and Jenny Ladefoged (originally Sounds of the World's Languages).

This sites contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German,a nd Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.

The following interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) were designed by Eric Armstrong of York University, Toronto, Canada; and voiced by Paul Meier, of the University of Kansas, USA. They are provided as an aid to students of dialects and phonetics. Vowels, consonants, ingressives, suprasegmentals, intonation, diacritics, ejectives, implosives, diphthongs, and clicks are demonstrated. Clicking one of the charts below will link you to a Flash animation, which will play the sound for each symbol.

Links to a phonetic keyboard layout for Cyrillic, which matches the phonetic keyboard in Mac OS.

Simple Mandarin can be learned phonetically in English, and the Chinese characters are also given at the end. It seems quite simple, and put together in a way that's easy to understand.

Online materials for a phonetics course using Praat.

This is a list of web sites that could be appropriate for use in an introductory phonetics course. Most of the sites on this list include audio, images, or interactive material.

Freeware for phonetic analysis. Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and others).

IPA Writer is a free online tool to transcribe phonetics using the IPA. It is powerful, yet simple. Clicking on an IPA character adds it to the end of the "IPA result" textbox at the top of the page. The IPA Writer is separated into four parts. Vowels, consonants, other consonants and diacritics/suprasegmentals.

How-to or manual site for using the phonetic analysis software Praat.

List of links to resources online for teaching pronunciation, phonetics or phonology. Emphasis on ESOL.

Phonetics course for French from Middebury.

Phonetics course for French from Middlebury

Phonetics course for French

Shows a cross-section diagram of the speech organs, and allows you to use buttons to change voicing, nasality, lip position, and tongue position, showing the IPA character for the resulting sound.

Clickable IPA chart that allows you to put together a transcription to copy and paste into another document.

This wiki describes tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations. `Linguistic annotation' covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data. The basic data may be in the form of time functions -- audio, video and/or physiological recordings -- or it may be textual. The added notations may include transcriptions of all sorts (from phonetic features to discourse structures), part-of-speech and sense tagging, syntactic analysis, "named entity" identification, co-reference annotation, and so on. The focus is on tools which have been widely used for constructing annotated linguistic databases, and on the formats commonly adopted by such tools and databases.

The American Councils Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) serves both graduate and undergraduate students. The academic program is designed to improve participants' oral, listening, reading, and writing proficiency in Russian language and to develop their knowledge of Russian history, politics, culture, and society. The academic year, semester, and summer programs provide approximately twenty hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies at Moscow International University, the Russian State Pedagogical University (Gertsen Institute) in St. Petersburg, and the KORA Center for Russian Language in Vladimir. One day per week of the academic program is set aside for local cultural excursions.