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Features •
Audience
• Using
the Libraries • Troubleshooting
• Credits
Features
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- The
English and Spanish Phonetics libraries are web resources that have
the following features for each of the consonants and vowels of Spanish
and American English.
- A real-time
Flash animated articulatory diagram of each consonant and vowel.
- An
annotated step-by-step description of how the sound is produced.
- Video
and audio of the sound spoken in context.
- The
navigation reflects the classification of consonants by manner, place
or voicing and vowels.
- Interactive
diagram of the articulatory anatomy.
Intended
Audience top
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This
library is intended to be used by adult students and instructors
of articulatory phonetics, linguistics or foreign language.
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Instructors
can use this for in-class projection.
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Students
can use the library to review phonetic sounds or supplement their
class or textbooks.
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Students
studying English or Spanish as a foreign language can see and hear
native speakers pronounce each sound.
Using
the Phonetics Libraries top
Selecting
sounds
1. Launch
the Spanish or English phonetics library (see quicklinks in upper
right corner of this page.
2. Click
on the top row of buttons to choose a classification of consonants
or vowels. The second row will include any appropriate sub-choices.
3. Click
on a sound in the sound list on the left.
4. For
each sound an animation with sound and movie will load. Click on the
"step-by-step description" button to show an explanation
of the sound articulation. Play the movie by pressing the "play
arrow" button. Click on a word to hear it pronounced.
Troubleshooting
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Video
doesn't appear.
It probably means that the QuickTime 4 plugin isn't installed correctly.
Remedy: Go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download.
No
sound.
Remedy: Make sure you have speakers or headphones connected and that
sound is not muted in your computer's control panel settings.
Animations
do not load
On some older PCs this may be a problem. Internet Explorer 5seems
to produce better performance. Check
for plugin
Credits
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This
project was produced at The Univeristy of Iowa as part of a collaborative
effort between the departments of Academic Technologies, Spanish and
Portuguese, and Speech Pathology and Audiology. This was made possible
by an Instructional Improvement Award from the Council on Teaching
at the University of Iowa.
Design
and Development Team.
Marilyn
Dispensa - Project supervision, interface design, video.
Lisa Waite - Interface design, graphic design, Flash animations.
Derek Siebert - Flash programming, animations
Linda Wickelhaus - Interface design, content coordination.
Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros, Ph.D - Spanish phonetics content expert.
Jerry Moon, Ph.D. - English phonetics content expert.
Tools
and software:
FinalCutPro, Media Cleaner Pro, Flash 4, Dreamweaver, and Quicktime
Pro.
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