Wiley-Blackwell

Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind

by Dani Byrd and Toben H. Mintz

  Supplemental Material

Chapter 1

  book cover
 

What Is 'Correct' Language?
by Edward Finegan

 

Chapter 2: Section 1

* Two real-time MRI movies from USC SPAN [sail.usc .edu/span].  Download (1.3Mb):
"Lena wanted a medicine for malaria" "These are the movements that shape the speech sounds"

 

* Real-time MRI of IPA Sounds

Consonants
sail consonant link

Vowels
sail vowel chart link


* Vowel Overlay Figure in Color

color overlay vowels
Image: Mark Tiede

 

* Audacity: The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

* Manner Waveforms

waveforms
Click below to play the series:
[ada], [aza], [adZa], [ana] [a]

 
* Two pronunciations of "hidden" from the same speaker
Hidden [full vowel]
Hidden [syllabic nasal]


* Two words from the same speaker
Daddy Danny


*Transcription Exercises from Louis Goldstein

 

* Waveform Exercise (see p. 48)

waveforms

(top) waveform of bad bad ipa
(bottom) waveform of pad pad ipa

Can you align the sounds in the transcription with the
appropriate intervals in each waveform by drawing lines separating and labeling each portion of the waveform? Where is the oral release? Where does vowel voicing begin?

Chapter 2: Section 2

Exploratorium: Vocal Vowels

Source Filter Theory--Louis Goldstein

Chapter 2: Section 3

Behind the Music; and a software theremin

Short Video on How the Ear Works

The Sense of Hearing

Chapter 3

UCLA Phonetics Lab Data Index of Languages

UCLA Phonetics Lab Data Index of Sounds

Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)

Take the Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes

X-ray Movie of a click consonant from Peter Ladefoged

Play: Japanese [okasan, oka:san, ok:asan]


Play Armenian VOT examples
[bar] [par] [phar]


Chapter 4

Normal (Bell-shaped) Distribution with a Galton board
        Run your own simulation:  here or here

Chapter 5

Our perceptual systems use contextual cues to interpret ambiguous information

Haskins Laboratory's Pattern Playback machine

The McGurk Effect

Chapter 7

Mark Liberman's Linguistic form in art and play: language games, song, verse

Spoonerisms

Chapter 9

Browse ASL Signs

Chapter 10

Experiments With a Split Brain Patient

Chapter 11

WebWhispers

Cochlear Implant and Hearing Loss Simulator

Wired Magazine: My Bionic Quest for Bolero by Michael Chorost

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities, legacy fact sheet

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Occupational Health and Safety Administration Safety and Health Topics Noise and Hearing Conservation

Common Misconceptions about Hearing
by Marek Roland-Mieszkowsk
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No child is too young for a hearing test. No child is too young for hearing aids. Once a loss is identified, it is imperative to act immediately. Intervention in the first six months makes a huge difference.

Chapter 12

How Should Reading Be Taught?