Phonetics Laboratory:  Consulting material

Bibliographic database since 1978: JASA, JPH, JIP, RFA, selected from various periodical publications available in the newspaper archive of the UB.

Phonetic Base of Oxford (The Oxford Acoustic Database): digital files of words from eight languages: British English, American English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. The files are in DOS extension and can be read by a PC or Macintosh computer.

UPSID (UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database): Inventory of the phonological systems of 451 languages. It can be manipulated and modified for updating. Available for PC.

SOWL (Sounds of the World's Languages): Database of more than 80 languages (ellaborated by UCLA Phonetics Laboratory), especially designed for teaching the sounds of the different world languages. Available for Macintosh.

KAY & University of Victoria Phonetic Database: Database with digital samples of twenty one languages of the world (many of them minority languages). Available for PC.

BASFON: It is a phonetic database of standard peninsular and insular Spanish. The information contained in it is based on a series of records made on the digital and analogical systems in cabins. The BASFON consists on file type *.wav and *.tif. These last ones contain:

1. graphics of J. Perelló
2. electropalatograms of every intervocalic articulation with [a] and the vowels in context [p]
3. waveform, sonogram with LPC and spectrum of the vowels
4. waveform, transcription with LPC of the consonants
5. phrases: intonation, transcription, sonogram.

This database is under construction.

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