General information

• Guidelines for term papers in phonetics
• Information on the cover page for BA and MA theses
• Exam regulations for the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne (Exam Regulations 2015)

Online literature

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.de/)
Here you will find in particular very popular and recent texts.

E-journalsof the USB:
The USB has subscribed to many journals online and licensed them for longer periods of time. Accessible at:
http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de
(Journals marked in green are freely available, those marked in yellow are only available within the UK-LAN, i.e. via VPN client from home or directly on a computer connected to the UK-LAN). 

Digital media can generally be found here.

Reference management

• Mendeley (external link): Reference management program for organizing, sharing and citing scientific articles and PDF documents
• Zotero (external link): free, open-source extension for the Firefox web browser for collecting, managing and citing various online and offline sources

How do I use IPA character sets?

• via web browser (external link, English)
• Windows / Macintosh / Linux (external links, language selectable in the header 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 about the Linguist List
• Registration for the mailing list

General phonetics-related links

• IPA: The International Phonetic Association / The International Phonetic Alphabet
• SAMPA: Computer Readable Phonetic Alphabet
• GToBI: Model and practice materials for German intonation

Free software & tutorials

Audacity

• "The free, operating system-independent audio editor"(First steps)
• Linux /Mac /Windows
• Audacity tutorials on basics and normalizing & denoising can be found here.

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."
• Manipulation of intonation

SFS

• "SFS 4/Windows is a free computing environment for PCs for conducting research into the nature of speech."
• Linux / Windows

External online courses (not University of Cologne)

• Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/)

Acquire the basics or deepen and expand existing knowledge in areas such as statistics, working with R, mathematics and much more. Free, competent, international.

Full range of courses at: https: //www.coursera.org/courses

• Computing for Data Analysis(Data Analysis)
• Statistics One(Statistics)
• Calculus: Single Variable(Calculus: Single Variable Part 1 - Functions)