Cool phonetics movies! 

There are many web sites listing phonetics audiovisual resources. An excellent list been compiled by John Coleman at Oxford, UK. See also the "Killer speech web sites" put together by Diane Kewley-Port. Here are some other useful movies:

I. Speech anatomy and physiology

frontal | occipital | temporal | sphenoid |zygomatics | mandible | maxilla| ethmoid 

Images of Brain:

Brain MRI | Oblique CT | Limbic system

Respiration:

X-ray of air coming into normal lungs | Respiration, front view | Respiration, side view

The Vocal Folds

Superior view of vocal folds - counting one to five

Supralaryngeal Vocal Tract

Here is a nice demo of the vocal tract transfer functions .

  The Tongue

Midsagittal view during vowel production | Computer model of tongue producing vowels/ superior view

Note: For more on computer modeling of tongue and jaw, see the work of P. Badin and group.

Swallowing

Here is an excellent site detailing identification of swallowing patterns associated with dysphagia.

 II.  Instrumental studies of speech production

  For animated heads that talk, see some recent demos from the ICP in Grenoble, France. 

  Here are some samples from the UCLA Phonetics Electropalatography (EPG) Lab.

 From the House Institute, some demos of 3D motion recorded with (Qualisys(tm)), and electromagnetic midsagittal articulography (EMA).

 Kevin Munhall and group have compiled some excellent laser-disk archives of x-ray cineradiography during speech.  Here are some samples I have converted to mpg format: Male | Second Male| Female| Second Female   

 Visit the University of Wisconsin X-ray Microbeam Facility.

  Short movies of x-ray microbeam speech data have recently been gathered by Michiko Hashi.

 Many sites now feature the McGurk Effect.  Here is an auditory /ba/ and visual /ga/

III. Examples of disordered speech

Ataxic dysarthria| Dysarthria/ Parkinson's Disease| Aphasia | Apraxia of speech

  Lastly, here's a reminder of the importance of learning foreign languages.

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