Geoff Pullum recommends a course on elementary phonetics as a practically useful introduction to one aspect of human diversity.

Crash Course Linguistics Phonetics 2 - Vowels Episode 9 | 11m 34s | CC In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...

Over the course of the next five years, phonetics specialists will look at cats and their human companions from two separate regions of Sweden to study intonation, voice and speaking style in ...

Oral data were collected from seventeen students enrolled in an undergraduate course in Spanish Phonetics at the beginning and end of the semester. The treatment consisted of standard phonetics ...

Pronunciation instruction has been shown to improve learners' L2 accent in some, though certainly not all, cases. A core component of traditional pronunciation instruction is explicit lessons in L2 ...