Useful Links

 

• Excerpt from the Study and Examination Regulations for the Magister's Course in Phonetics (linked page in German)
 
• How to write a "Hausarbeit" in phonetics (linked page in German)
 
• Where to find digital literature (linked page in German)
 
• Reference management
Mendeley (external link): desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online
Zotero (external link): free, open source add-on for the Firefox web browser to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDFs)
 
• How to use IPA fonts
via web browser (external link)
Windows / Macintosh / Linux (external links, language selectable at the top of the linked pages)
download free IPA fonts
 
• The Linguist List
"The aim of the list is to provide a forum where academic linguists can discuss linguistic issues and exchange linguistic information."
Information on the Linguist List Subscribe to the Linguist List
 
General Links
IPA

The International Phonetic Association / The International Phonetic Alphabet

SAMPA Computer Readable Phonetic Alphabet
GToBI Model of German intonation
Free software and tutorials
Audacity "The free, cross-platform sound editor" Linux / Mac / Windows
  Audacity tutorial (German)  
  Grundlagen (.mov, 2min36 / 40,6 MB)  
  Normalisieren & Entrauschen (.mov, 3min33 / 63,2 MB)  
Emu "EMU is a collection of software tools for the creation, manipulation and analysis of speech databases." Linux / Mac / Windows
CDex "CDex is a CD-ripper, extracting digital audio data from an audio CD." Windows
Praat "Praat is a program for speech analysis and synthesis." Linux / Mac / Windows
  Praat tutorial (German)  
  Grundlagen (.m4v, 4min32 / 7,1 MB)  
  Annotation von Daten (.mov, 5min52 / 125 MB)  
  Manipulation von Intonation (.m4v, 5min52 / 46,3 MB)  
SFS "SFS 4/Windows is a free computing environment for PCs for conducting research into the nature of speech." Linux / Windows
 
• Phonetic institutes elsewhere in Germany
Bonn Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik
München Institut für Phonetik und sprachliche Kommunikation
Saarbrücken Computional Linguistics and Phonetics
Frankfurt Institut für Phonetik
Kiel Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung
Halle Institut für Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik
Trier Universität Trier, Fach Phonetik
Marburg Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft Fach Phonetik
Berlin Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik - Phonetik
Stuttgart Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
Aachen Phonetik an der medizinischen Fakultät der RWTH Aachen