Roy Becker-Kristal

רועי בקר-קריסטל

• Phonetics:
  
  • UCLA phonetics lab, where there is plenty of cool stuff
    
  • PRAAT, the phonetician's best friend.
    
  • PRAAT user list, for excellent tips.
    
  • The International Phonetic Association.
    
  • Journal of Phonetics, my favorite academic journal.
    
• Former mentors and colleagues:
  
  • Outi Bat-El, phonologist and academic mother of many of us Tel-Aviv University linguistics graduates.
    
  • Máire Ní Chiosáin, my MA advisor at University College Dublin.
    
  • Michael Becker, another tall Israeli guy who started his way in the TAU linguistics department, now at UMASS-Amherst, and ... no, we're not related.
    
• Irish music:
  
  • Clannad, where it all began for me.
    
  • Lúnasa, probably my favorite band today.
    
  • Dervish, another great band.
    
  • Danú, yet another wonderful band.
    
  • Southern California Uilleann-Pipers Club
    
  • The Session, a wonderful source for trad tunes.
    
  • The online archive of TG4, great for watching trad on TV, in Irish.
    
  • The virtual home of the Israeli trad scene.