Linguistics Games by Nathan Sanders

Here are some of the educational games I've created for linguistics, mostly for practicing IPA symbols, phonetic terminology, and phonological features:

Print and play

IPA Bingo for general North American English (modelled after Lynn Santelmann's original from Cascadilla Press): bingo sheets and calling cards (double border for calling out natural classes for a faster game, single border for calling out individual phones for a slower game)

IPA Bingo for standard French (with Fatima Hamlaoui): bingo sheets and calling cards

IPA Discard for non-English consonants (shedding game modelled after Crazy Eights and Uno): rules and cards

IPA Hunt for non-English vowels (guessing game modelled after Battleship): rules and playsheet

Online (all created with Flippity.net)

Linguistic Articulators Melting Snowman (guessing game for speech and sign articulators, modelled after Hangman)

Signed Language Articulation Locked Questions (question and answer game for signed langauge articulation)

Spoken Language Articulation Match Game (matching game modelled after Concentration, with face-up cards)

Consonant Manner Memory Match Game (matching game for IPA manner of articulation, with face-down cards)

Consonant Place Memory Match Game (matching game for place of articulation, with face-down cards)

Consonant Group Match Game (matching game for natural classes, with face-up cards)

Consonant Group Memory Match Game (harder matching game for natural classes, with face-down cards)

IPA English Consonant Open Match (matching game with face-up cards)

IPA English Consonant Memory Match #1 (matching game, with face-down cards)

IPA English Consonant Memory Match #2 (even harder matching game, with more face-down cards)

Basic Vowel Match Game (matching game for some vowel symbols, with face-up cards)

Basic Vowel Memory Match Game (same as previous, with face-down cards)

Advanced Vowel Match Game (matching game for other vowel symbols, with face-up cards)

Advanced Vowel Memory Match Game (same as previous, with face-down cards)

Super Vowel Memory Match Game (matching game for all vowels in both groups, with face-down cards

IPA Vowel Open Match (matching game for non-English vowels and diacritics, with face-up cards)

IPA Vowel Memory Match (harder matching game for non-English vowels and diacritics, with face-down cards)

online version of IPA Bingo for general North American English: online card generator and randomizable lists for calling out individual phones and natural classes

IPA Consonant Trap boardgame and rules (novel matching and logical puzzle game for non-English consonants)

Phonological Features Open Match #1 (matching game for phonological features)

Phonological Features Open Match #2 (harder matching game for phonological features)

Syllable Snowman Game (guessing game for syllable terminology)

Stress and Tone Locked Questions (question and answer game for stress and tone)

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