Linguistics
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. - Mark Amidon
Linguistics studies language. It focuses on both theoretical and applied research in such fields as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, stylistics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, clinical linguistics, evolutionary linguistics and applied linguistics.
There are many useful websites related to linguistic research - websites of linguistic societies, associations of linguists; web pages of departments of linguistics at universities; websites designed by individual linguists.
Best Websites for Linguists
Linguist List
Linguist List is one of the most popular websites. It contains information about dissertations, academic papers, texts and corpora, linguistic programs, collaboration projects, and useful linguistic links. It also gives an opportunity to become a Linguist List research assistant.
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) International studies documents and assists in developing the world’s lesser-known languages. It focuses on literacy, linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistic computing, translation and other academic disciplines. SIL’s linguistic investigation exceeds 1,800 languages spoken by over 1.2 billion people in more than 70 countries. SIL focuses on unwritten languages. People who speak these languages often live in geographic, social, and economic isolation.
Ethnologue
Ethnologue is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages. It provides a comprehensive listing of the known living languages of the world. It also contains over 12,000 citations spanning 70 years of SIL International's language research in over 1,000 languages, books about languages and cultures of the world and an extensive library for language researchers.
The Virtual Linguistics Campus
The Virtual Linguistics Campus (VLC) is the world's largest e-learning platform for linguistics. The VLC offers fully certified linguistic courses and course material for theoretical and applied linguistics. It also includes linguistic tools and all the communicative facilities necessary for successful e-learning.
Lingformant
Lingformant, lauched in the summer of 2005, is a blog service geared towards individuals working in the various fields of linguistics. Its main function is to keep us up to date with the latest news headlines related to the study and understanding of language.
The European Language Resources Association
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is the driving force that makes available the language resources for language engineering and evaluates language engineering technologies. ELRA collects, validates, standardizes, promotes and distributes the production of language resources.
The Linguistic Data Consortium
The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution.
E-Meld
E-meld is a 5-year project with a dual objective: (1) to assist in the protection of endangered languages data and documentation, (2) to assist in the development of the infrastructure needed for effective collaboration among electronic archives.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is an international professional organization. Since its establishment, it has been the major professional society for people working in computer-aided research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual materials.
Orbis Latinus
Orbis Latinus includes languages, dialects, issues related to comparative linguistics, linguistic interaction, Romance languages and the relationship between the Romance-speaking nations.
The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
The Natural Language Processing Group at Stanford University is a team of faculty, postdocs and students who work together on algorithms that allow computers to process and understand human languages. Their work ranges from basic research in computational linguistics to key applications in human language technology and covers areas such as sentence understanding, probabilistic parsing and tagging, biomedical information extraction, grammar induction, word sense disambiguation, and automatic question answering.
Linguistic Atlas Projects
Linguistic Atlas Projects is a group of projects with one thing in common: studying dialects of English as it is spoken in the United States. The Linguistic Atlas Projects are a collection of studies performed for the last 80 years. The projects are arranged geographically.
The International Phonetic Association
The International Phonetic Association (IPA) is the major organization for phoneticians, established in 1886 in Paris. It provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages - the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It also promotes the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of phonetics.
UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics has been highly rated for the quality of teaching students of Phonetics, Linguistics and the English Language. It has been involved in a number of funded projects concerned with education in phonetics and speech communication, and offers a variety of software for analyzing sounds and signals, displaying waveforms and spectra, synchronizing display and audio, storing and analyzing speech data. The department has specialist facilities for research in the production and perception of speech, including an anechoic recording chamber and sound proofed booths in the Listening Centre.
SOCRATES Thematic Network
SOCRATES Thematic Network in Phonetics and Speech Communication Inventory of Internet Resources includes useful information on the topics related to computer aided learning and education in phonetics and speech communication.
The Rutgers Optimality Archive
The Rutgers Optimality Archive is a big archive of papers (more than 500 papers) on one of the most influential theories of grammar, Optimality Theory, and also contains a bibliography and a mailing list. The Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA) is a distribution point for research in Optimality Theory. Posting in ROA is open to all who wish to disseminate their work in, on, or about Optimality Theory.
Annotated List of Resources
Statistical natural language processing and corpus-based computational linguistics: an annotated list of free downloadable resources.
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar pages provide an overview of the research on HPSG which has been conducted over the past few years: past and current projects, a survey of the leading ideas, and the past and present researchers who have been active in HPSG studies. In addition, there is some useful information about HPSG in Ohio State University website. Also, there are more links...
Omniglot
Omniglot is a useful website with language related articles. It gives useful tips on learning languages and writing systems.
Speech Internet Dictionary
Speech Internet Dictionary (SID) provides definitions of technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science and allied disciplines. In addition, SID gives examples, provides illustrations and sound clips.
Richard Lederer's Verbivore
Richard Lederer's Verbivore website was woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. It is the website where carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. Dr. Lederer is the author of more than 30 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current book, Presidential Trivia.
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