BAPFOHL
April 11, 2001
Sounds in the mind


1. What do you mean, "sounds in the mind"??!!

• My introduction to phonological theory (in Chinese!)

2. Your speech-making machine

• My undergrad class notes on the physics of speech



• Our own laboratory for studying speech!



• A bunch of links to speech WWW pages and programs



• An interactive program for learning about speech (requires Shockwave)

3. Your speech-perception machine

• Speech perception research by the inventors of that "talking face"



• A movie demonstrating the "McGurk Effect" : how hearing speech is affected by seeing speech



• "Sine-wave speech": computer noise, or English?

4. The grammar of speech

• My graduate phonology class



• My undergrad notes (in English) about phonemes, rules, and features ; and about syllables, feet, and how phonology interacts with morphology and syntax



• A website for research on Optimality Theory (the popular constraint-based phonological theory)



• A program ("Turing machine"!) that automatically divides words into syllables

5. Sign language phonology

• An on-line ASL dictionary (with movies)



• A scholarly journal all about the world's various sign languages



• A Dutch group studying sign language phonology (especially Dutch Sign Language)