To us, speaking and listening to speech comes so naturally. Have you ever consciously thought about what processes are involved in this? This is exactly what Phonetics aims to do. It aims to give a ...

Online pronunciation training from the Goethe Institute can support you on your journey to speaking German better. During the training, you will work on the most important issues in German phonetics ...

This paper examines the phonology and phonetics of rhotics in Modern Irish. Descriptions of the Old Irish language posit four distinct rhotic phonemes, differentiated along the axes fortis-lenis and ...

This method has been extensively used at UCLA. When we begin to analyse the frequencies of the sounds we produce, we’re getting out of articulatory phonetics and into acoustic phonetics. Acoustic ...

The closest you might find is in words such as ‘tchórz’ (coward) – though even then, there’s a pesky ‘C’ separating the two, not to mention a different pronunciation! To round out our phonetic journey ...

Download the 2016 ICPLA Confierence programme [1.91 mb - PDF]. It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 16th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) Conference in ...

New research has revealed the areas in London that are among the hardest to pronounce including Greenwich and the River Thames.