online language and linguistics resources
web resources for linguistics
frequently used course links :: Finegan (2004) homepage :: York IPA pages :: Ashby & Maidment (2005) :: Iowa speech libraries
The Linguist List
A website and mailing list for students, academics and professionals working in linguistics and allied disciplines. Features the 'Ask-a-Linguist' service, careers advice, links to relevant resources, and searchable archives of more than a decade's worth of postings.Linguistics Online
A new resource featuring a range of useful resources for students of linguistics, run from the University of Marburg.LTSN Subject Centre for Linguistics
The subject centre, based at the University of Southampton, aims to 'disseminate information relating to teaching and learning of the discipline', to 'provide a forum for the exchange of ideas', and to 'foster networking, collaboration and the sharing of good practice.'AllLearn (the Alliance for Lifelong Learning)
The following link takes you to the entry for 'linguistics', from where you can link to other sites grouped by subfield (historical linguistics, syntax, phonology, etc.). Provided by Stanford, Oxford, and Yale Universities.SIL International (formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Lots of language-related information (e.g. Ethnologue) and useful free downloads (e.g. IPA fonts, Speech Analyzer).iLoveLanguages (formerly The Human Languages page)
Information on around 200 languages, online dictionaries, etc., and links to many language and linguistic sites elsewhere on the net.Georgetown University Linguistics
List of linguistics resources offered by Georgetown University in Washington DC.STELLA (Software for Teaching English Language & Literature and its Assessment) links
Links for linguistics, phonetics, speech and hearing run from the University of Glasgow.
Oxford English Dictionary online
Needs no introduction, just a subscription to the online search facility.Merriam-Webster English Dictionary, Thesaurus, Word-Histories
Online Encyclopaedia of English Grammar and Word Grammar
Updated to 2003, courtesy of Dick Hudson at University College London.Glossary of Linguistic Terms
Provided by Orbis Latinus, a set of online resources for Romance linguistics.Peter Roach's Little Encyclopaedia of Phonetics
Not so little: it's a fairly sizeable (c. 950K) .pdf file which you'll need Adobe Acrobat to view. You can download the Acrobat reader for free from here, if it's not already loaded on your PC.John Maidment's Speech Internet Dictionary
To use the dictionary, you can start at this page, and then replace the 'a' in the last part of the address with the relevant letter (e.g. to look up 'syllable', the last part of the URL should be 'sids.htm').Linguist List's list of language dictionaries
Links to monolingual, bilingual and multilingual dictionaries online, via the Linguist List website.Ethnologue
SIL International's database of the languages of the world.Ask-a-Linguist
A voluntary service provided by subscribers to the LinguistList.Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free-content encyclopedia.Online medical dictionary
Created by Dr. Graham Dark of Newcastle University's Medical Oncology Department. Contains 46,000 definitions.Psybox
Online definitions of terms and concepts in psychology and cognitive science.encyclopedia.com
The Internet's 'premier free encyclopaedia', with over 57,000 articles taken from the 6th edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia.
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Language Learning and Technology
A refereed journal for second and foreign language educators.Marges Linguistiques
A new twice-yearly online journal, the aim of which is to synthesise traditional fields of linguistics with pragmatic linguistics, conversational analysis, analysis of verbal interactions, modes of social communication and 'the most current concerns of sociolinguists, psycholinguists, ethnolinguists, semioticians, pragmaticians and philosophers of language'.^ back to top of page
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