I may put other interesting things here as we go on through the course. I will let you know in class and in the NEWS section on the main page!

For example, here is the International Phonetic Alphabet that we will hear more of when we do phonetics and phonology and which you should already have seen used in any good dictionary: chart. Strangely enough, it is not as frightening as it might appear!

A very thorough overview of the changes in the sounds of English from even before its origins to the modern day is given in this Wikipedia entry.

Some additional introductory linguistics overheads from Randy Allen Harris (U. Waterloo) on most of the subjects that we have addressed in the course can be found here. (Make sure that you use the pdf versions on this site and not the 'pps' versions, as these latter might not have the right fonts for you... this is particularly noticeable in the phonetics and phonology overheads!).