Wikipedia is a surprisingly good source for matters linguistic—there’s been a concerted effort on the part of linguists to improve and maintain the offerings. As such, Wikipedia makes a good first stop for research on many matters phonetic and phonological. Though there are countless articles that may be of use and interest, we have compiled a Wikipedia ‘book’ of a small selection of such articles.

 

A Wikipedia ‘book’ containing a selection of useful articles on phonetics, phonology, accents, dialects, linguistics, and truly terrible poetry may be read or downloaded

here.

 

Current articles included in the book (click directly on the links to be taken straight to individual articles):

 

Phonetics & Phonology

• Human voice
• Phoneme
• Phone (phonetics)
• Phonetics
• Articulatory phonetics
• Minimal pair
• Phonetic transcription
• International Phonetic Alphabet
• Consonant
• Place of articulation
• Manner of articulation
• Phonation
• Vowel
• Cardinal vowels
• Daniel Jones (phonetician)
• Ingressive sound
• Voice-onset time
• Implosive consonant
• Epiglottal consonant
• Epiglotto-pharyngeal consonant
• Sj-sound
• Uvular flap
• Syllable
• Formant
• Spectrogram
• Diaphoneme
• Index of phonetics articles

Sound change & other phonological phenomena

• Sound change
• Phonological change
• Assimilation (linguistics)
• Metathesis (linguistics)
• Epenthesis
• Lenition
• Elision
• Phonological history of English consonants
• Phonological history of English consonant clusters
• Phonological history of English fricatives and affricates
• Phonological history of English vowels
• Great Vowel Shift
• Phonological history of English low back vowels
• English-language vowel changes before historic /r/
• Northern Cities Vowel Shift
• Chain shift
• English phonology
• T-glottalization
• L-vocalization
• Intervocalic alveolar flapping

Linguistic Facts of Life

• A language is a dialect with an army and navy
• Linguistic prescription
• Linguistic purism
• Linguistic description
• Variety (linguistics)
• Code-switching
• Oakland Ebonics controversy
• Linguistic relativity
• Isogloss
• Synchrony and diachrony

Sociolinguistics

• Sociolinguistics
• Ethnolect
• Sociolect
• Register (sociolinguistics)
• Prestige (sociolinguistics)
• Standard language
• Standard English
• William Labov
• Lavender linguistics

Accents & Dialects—About

• Accent (sociolinguistics)
• Dialect
• Dialect continuum
• Basis of articulation
• Lexical set
• International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects
• Regional accents of English
• North American English regional phonology
• Rhoticity in English
• Non-native pronunciations of English
• Prosody (linguistics)
• Intonation (linguistics)
• Stress (linguistics)
• Isochrony
• Accents (psychology)
• Sprachbund

Accents & Dialects—Individual

• African American Vernacular English
• New York Latino English
• General American
• Hiberno-English
• Scottish English
• Multicultural London English
• Rhyming slang
• Geordie
• Australian English
• Navajo phonology
• Tamil phonology
• Taa language
• Turkish phonology
• Archi language

Awful poetry & miscellaneous whimsy

• William McGonagall
• The Tay Bridge Disaster
• Vogon
• James McIntyre (poet)
• Julia A. Moore
• Amanda McKittrick Ros
• The Eye of Argon
• Mondegreen
• Eggcorn
• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
• Semantic satiation
• Outlandish

Somewhat random miscellany

• Emic and etic
• McGurk effect