Gender and the Sounds of English
February 28, 2007

 The sound system of any language provides a wide variety of resources for indexing gender. Today's class will provide some introduction to phonetics to serve as background, and will begin our discussion of gender and the sounds of language.

Class Slides PDF

Some Stuff on Phonetics

The University of Iowa offers an interactive articulatory phonetics website, which shows a moving sagittal view of the articulatory organs pronouncing the sounds of English.

Check out, also, the website of the International Phonetics Association for the complete IPA Alphabet

The UCLA Phonetics lab has a vast phonetics website, which includes recordings of the sounds of many languages. Check out the index of languages and index of sounds on the vowels and consonants page