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Resources
Web
Warning about the World-Wide Web.
Anyone can create a Web page on any topic.
So it's not surprising that the Web
has many pages written by people with no particular
formal training or experience in the areas they pretend to be
experts on.
For language you'll find much on the Web
that is misleading and even downright wrong.
For example, there is this site
that purports to automatically
translate standard English into various "dialects."
Use the Web with care.
Below are some trustworthy Web sites.
- How Language Works,
the textbook for this class
- Linguistic Society of America
- Linguist List,
mailing list and other resources for linguists
- Ethnologue,
database of all of the world's known languages (6,809!)
- American Dialect Society,
the academic association concerned with the study of the English language
in North America
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American dialect links: links to sites concerned with American English
dialects (Note: Many of the sites are not at all scholarly, but still interesting sources
of data. And some links are dead.)
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English dialect links: links to sites concerned with non-American English
dialects (Note: Many of the sites are not at all scholarly, but still interesting sources
of data. And some links are dead.)
- Two sites concerned with endangered languages:
Terralingua
and
the Foundation for Endangered Languages
- Two sites with dictionaries of
American Sign Language, complete with movies of the signs:
ASL Browser,
American Sign Language
Dictionary
- Voice of America Language Links,
news from the VOA in about 50 different languages
- Downloadable
phonetic fonts from the Summer Institute of Linguistics
- A paper by
the famous sociolinguist William Labov
on the dramatic changes going on in the vowels of many Americans
- Estuary English:
very useful and informative site by a phonetician and expert on English accents
about Estuary English, which some people believe is becoming the new standard
accent of England
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