Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Canberra : 2019.

Under the general editorship: S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, P. Warren

Our congress themes for ICPhS 2019 are “Endangered
Languages” and “Major Language Varieties”.
Melbourne is the fastest growing city in Australia,
with migrants from all over the world; and although
English is the most widely-spoken language, there is
a very large variety of community languages spoken
here as well. We are also very proud in Australia of
our Aboriginal heritage; and although indigenous
communities in Australia suffered greatly as a result of
British settlement – leading to tremendous language
loss in certain regions – some strong language
communities and cultures remain despite invasion.
I am also pleased to note that ICPhS 2019 is being
supported by our “Kiwi cousins” in New Zealand, who
like us speak a “New World” variety of the English
language brought to us by the British settlers, as well
as te reo Māori, the indigenous language of New
Zealand.

Chapters

Sound Comparisons: A New Resource for Exploring Phonetic Diversity across Language Families of the World

Heggarty P., Shimelman A., Abete G. et al., , in: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.: Canberra: [б.и.], 2019. P. 280–284.

Sound Comparisons hosts over 90,000 individual word recordings and 50,000 narrow phonetic transcriptions from 600 language varieties from eleven language families around the world. This resource is designed to serve researchers in phonetics, phonology and related fields. Transcriptions follow new initiatives for standardisation in usage of the IPA and Unicode. At soundcomparisons.com, users can explore the transcription datasets by phonetically-informed search and filtering, customise selections ...

Added: November 1, 2019

Keywords: phonetics, phonology