Links to other websites (including audio clips of General British) and blogs
See especially http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/general-british
On this site there are recordings of General British (GB), older GB, Conspicuous GB, Regional GB and some other standard pronunciations including Standard Scottish English (SSE) and General Northern English (GNE), together with some illustrations of creaky voice.
See also
- archive.phonetics.ucla.edu (The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive): Lots on phonetics from one of the leading phonetics departments in the world
- blogjam.name (John Maidment’s blog) : Thoughts on language from a retired phonetician
- ipa.group.shef.ac.uk: Recordings (audio and video) of each sound of the International Phonetic Alphabet
- matters-phonetic.blogspot.co.uk (Kraut): A website on phonetics from Germany
- myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/index.html: John Higgins’ complete list of minimal pairs
- web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/upsid.html (UPSID, UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database): If you want to see what sounds occur in which languages, this is the place to look
- www.baap.ac.uk (British Association of Academic Phoneticians): Here you can see where phonetics is taught in British universities
- www.blogger.com (Jane Setter): www.languagegeek.com (Christopher Harvey in Canada)
- www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa (The International Phonetic Association): This is the international association which looks after the interests of phonetics generally and publishes its own journal, the Journal of the International Phonetics Association (JIPA)
- www.linguism.co.uk (Graham Pointon): Thoughts on the pronunciation of particular words by someone who led the BBC Pronunciation Unit
- www.omniglot.com: An encyclopedia of writing systems of the world’s writing systems
- www.phon.ucl.ac.uk (Phonetics at University College, London): www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/ptlc (The Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference online)
- www.yek.me.uk/blog.html (Jack Windsor Lewis’s blog): A website that has a homepage with a host of interesting observations on many aspects of British English today, plus a blog that adds to it
- englishspeechservices.com/blog Geoff Lindsay
- phonetic-blog.blogspot.co.uk John Wells