PHONETIC BLOGS

• There are now at least two phoneticians writing a regular blog. The most widely read is the daily blog written by John Wells: see http://www.phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/

• Another is written by Jack Windsor Lewis: see http://www.yek.me.uk/

          - in addition to JWL's "PhonetiBlogs", this website contains a number of interesting (and often controversial) papers on phonetics and phoneticians.

• I have been asked a number of times if I'm going to start writing one myself, and the answer is always "no" - I don't want to take on such a big commitment.

PHONETICS BOOK WEBSITES

• Anyone who consults "Gimson", the book originally titled An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English and now, revised by Alan Cruttenden and in its seventh edition, called Gimson's Pronunciation of English, should look at the website for the book, even though it's not as easy to find as some. Go to http://www.hodderplus.com/linguistics/ and select the Cruttenden book. You will have to register, and you will be told to use Linguistics as your username and Hodder as your password. The site contains various recordings  by the author illustrating aspects of intonation, and some interesting MRI scans (looking much like x-ray films of the head viewed from the side).

• An interesting site is the one which accompanies Practical Phonetics and Phonology by Bev Collins and Inger Mees. See the not very memorable address: http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415261341

       - it's worth looking at the sections on resources and on web-links. 

• Chris McCully's new book The Sound Structure of English has a website giving answers to exercises and discussion on various points arising in the book. See http://www.let.rug.nl/soundstructure/