The Kymograph was an early instrument for recording speech pressure waveforms.

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Michael Ashby & John Maidment

Introducing Phonetic Science

Chapter 1: Introduction to Speech

Links

  • Writing systems

    • The IPA Chart

    • Omniglot: A very interesting site with information about many types of writing system.

    • Hangul: basic information on the Korean alphabet

    • Egyptian hieroglyphs: A colourful and interesting site with lots of  information about this complex writing system.
       

  • Sign Language

    • BSL: a site with information about British Sign Language and links to video clips of signs.
       

  • Waveforms

  • Languages

    • Ethnologue contains a wealth of information about languages of the world.