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Department of English Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5331
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Student Resource Page
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Course
syllabus for English 3720, Fall 2008
Handouts: If you missed it in class, pick it up here. Pages will be added throughout the semester. (pdf files)
IPA chart (pdf file)
Study outline #1 (pdf file)
Assignment sheets: Assignments will be available here beginning on the day they are scheduled to be assigned in class.
Term paper, due Wednesday, November 19 (pdf file)
IPA homework, due Monday, September 22 (pdf file)
Guidelines for class presentation and discussion leadership (pdf file)
WMU Library Link: Library home page
We'll keep adding more as the semester goes on if you share interesting sites that you find!
SIL International is the go-to source for information about world languages and for help learning IPA and the sounds of English. This link goes to their IPA help page, where you can click on phonetic symbols and here the sounds articulated. SIL also has numerous other linguistics resources, so feel free to browse around once you're there. A fun site to explore! (Note: All speech sounds are here, not just those used in English, so there will be some symbols you might not recognize. Since our class is about English, we'll only be concerned with English speech sounds and the symbols that represent them. But if you study other languages, you might be interested in the additional symbols here as well.)
The HEL website was built by Dan Mosser at Virginia Tech and has one of the most extensive online bibliographies of useful information on the development of English that I've seen. Numerous links to websites covering topics from Indo-European, Old English, and Middle English to present-day American English. Also includes links to syllabi so you can see how the development of modern English/history of the English language is being studied by other students around the U.S. Good stuff!
Links to History of the English Language Resources is maintained by Edwin Duncan at Towson University. In addition to an extensive assortment to links with information about all the stages of development of English, this page also includes links to sites with information about the English language in general, English words, English speech sounds and IPA.
Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish, a project at the University of Iowa, is a great resource for studying speech sounds. Includes multimedia files for help learning about places of articulation and libraries of speech sounds for both English and Spanish, this is a great site for students or anyone who is interested in language.