IU Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab
The L2 Psycholinguistics lab at Indiana University is directed by Isabelle Darcy. The lab examines phonological knowledge in L1 and L2, the L2 mental lexicon, individual differences in phonological acquisition, and pronunciation instruction methods.
IU Phonetics Lab
The website of the Phonetics Lab at Indiana University has tons of online resources about concepts in phonetics and resources for conducting research.
ESL / EFL Teaching
English Accent Coach
If your students have issues accurately perceiving English vowels and/or consonants, this is a research-backed game you can have them play to help improve their perception. The method used is high variability phonetic training (HVPT). Click on the "Tour" button on the website to learn how the game works. Check out this article by Ron Thomson to learn more about HVPT.
Perception of Spoken English Test
This site is the best free site I've found for assessing students' speech perception. The website has its flaws, but I use it to assess consonant and vowel perception in my communication classes. It's a great resource for getting an overview of your students' perceptual systems, and it can also help create buy-in on their side (i.e., it can help them see that they don't perceive some sounds accurately). You'll likely need to follow-up to probe more to make sure the scores accurately reflect your students' needs and to make sure they understand what the scores mean.
Pronunciation for teachers
This is an excellent resource for all kinds of information regarding pronunciation instruction!
If your students have issues accurately perceiving English vowels and/or consonants, this is a research-backed game you can have them play to help improve their perception. The method used is high variability phonetic training (HVPT). Click on the "Tour" button on the website to learn how the game works. Check out this article by Ron Thomson to learn more about HVPT.
Perception of Spoken English Test
This site is the best free site I've found for assessing students' speech perception. The website has its flaws, but I use it to assess consonant and vowel perception in my communication classes. It's a great resource for getting an overview of your students' perceptual systems, and it can also help create buy-in on their side (i.e., it can help them see that they don't perceive some sounds accurately). You'll likely need to follow-up to probe more to make sure the scores accurately reflect your students' needs and to make sure they understand what the scores mean.
Pronunciation for teachers
This is an excellent resource for all kinds of information regarding pronunciation instruction!
Research resources
Databases
CLEARPOND phonological and orthographic neighborhood database
KU Similarity Neighborhoods Calculator
KU Phonotactic Probability Calculator
SUBTLEXus database (American English lexical frequency)
Includes 51 million words from American English television and movie subtitles. This has been analyzed and found to be a better predictor of everyday language than other databases (i.e. Krucera & Francis, 1967). For an analysis, see Brysbaert and New (2009).
Click here for the SUBTLEX-UK (British English version)
Language networks
Michael Vitevitch has done some pioneering work into understanding the phonological network of the mental lexicon. Many of his papers are available on his website. For anyone interested in this line of research, I'd suggest starting with Vitevitch & Luce (2016).
CLEARPOND phonological and orthographic neighborhood database
KU Similarity Neighborhoods Calculator
KU Phonotactic Probability Calculator
SUBTLEXus database (American English lexical frequency)
Includes 51 million words from American English television and movie subtitles. This has been analyzed and found to be a better predictor of everyday language than other databases (i.e. Krucera & Francis, 1967). For an analysis, see Brysbaert and New (2009).
Click here for the SUBTLEX-UK (British English version)
Language networks
Michael Vitevitch has done some pioneering work into understanding the phonological network of the mental lexicon. Many of his papers are available on his website. For anyone interested in this line of research, I'd suggest starting with Vitevitch & Luce (2016).
Programming
Praat scripts
Danielle Daidone's website is amazing for many reasons, but I find the Praat script section especially useful.
Matt Winn directs University of Minnesota's Listen Lab. This is another great source for many things, including Praat scripts.
Web scraping
The YouTube channel DataSlice has an excellent tutorial on how to scrape a website using R (also in Google Sheets): link.
Danielle Daidone's website is amazing for many reasons, but I find the Praat script section especially useful.
Matt Winn directs University of Minnesota's Listen Lab. This is another great source for many things, including Praat scripts.
Web scraping
The YouTube channel DataSlice has an excellent tutorial on how to scrape a website using R (also in Google Sheets): link.