Syllabus

• ASIAN 401 syllabus (version of March 28)
• Revised syllabus (for weeks 8-10, revised May 16)

Handouts

• Class handouts (including homework assignments)

Lectures

• Powerpoint slideshows and overheads

Answers

• Homework #1 answer key | Homework #2 answer key | ALW Exercises 2.2.2-2.2.5 | Homework #3 answer key | ALW Exercises 1.2.16-2.2.20 | Midterm answer key | Homework #4 answer key | ALW Exercises 5.2.1-5.2.3 | Homework #5 answer key

Fonts

• Download free Unicode IPA font from SIL (Windows or Macintosh)
• Get free fonts from Berkeley's STEDT project including IPA and other symbols (Windows or Macintosh)
• Get free pinyin fonts (Windows or Macintosh, including my own TimesPinyin font for Macintosh)

Both Windows and Macintoshes now come with complete Unicode fonts that include IPA symbols. These are already installed in your system. The Windows fonts are "Arial Unicode MS" and "Lucinda Sans Unicode". The Macintosh font is "Lucida Grande". Both are quite ugly. The links above are for nicer-looking fonts.

It is not always easy to get the symbols you want into your documents. On a Macintosh, you can install the "Show Character Palette" keyboard layout, and look for phonetic symbols in the "IPA Extensions" Unicode block; or better, download and install the free IPA Palette. In Microsoft Word on Windows XP, you can use "Insert Symbol" and scroll through the font to find the appropriate symbols. This can be time-consuming, but once you find the symbol you want, you can assign a keystroke to it so that you can enter it easily in the future. You can find a description of how to do this here.

You may also download this detailed guide to entering IPA symbols. Most of the information is for Mac.

Phonetics

• Web site of the International Phonetic Association
• Full chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Instructions for using IPA practice programs at the LLC
• Many of the multimedia examples played in class are from Ladefoged's Vowels & Consonants or A Course in Phonetics

These web sites will allow you to view and listen to the production of speech sounds:

• Paul Meier's Interactive IPA Charts (note that on this site, 'stops' are referred to as 'plosives', and all voiceless stops are pronounced as aspirated even though they are not so marked)
• University of Arizona's "Languages Samples Project" IPA charts
• Université de Lausanne's articulatory phonetics introduction
• UW Language Learning Center's IPA tutorial
• U of Iowa's Phonetics: Sounds of English, Spanish and German interactive site
• Peter Ladefoged's Course in Phonetics and Consonants and Vowels web site (contains many examples of sounds in non-English languages)
• SIL's IPA Help site
• SIL also has a free program for Windows to help you learn IPA (it's part of a larger software package called "SpeechTools") - note that these free tools are no longer supported by SIL, so install the software at your own risk

Textbook

• Companion web site to Contemporary Linguistics