Linguistics links

Links for beginning students of linguistics

Links on a wide range of topics, including interesting tidbits and amusements

Links by topic

Phonetics and Phonology

• Excellent collection of Online phonetics resources maintained by Jennifer Smith
• USC: Links to teaching videos: http://sail.usc.edu/span/teaching.php
• Phonetics and Phonology Links
• Speech research
• Phonetics links
• Resources for studying human speech
• How to read a spectrogram
• X-ray databases: movie files!
• Stress System Database, an index of primary word stress in many languages that may be viewed by language or by stress system
• Optimality Theory: Rutgers Optimality Archive
• Phonological Atlas of North America
• Phonetic fonts
• Vowels and Consonants
• Lucent Bell Labs Text to Speech system demo
• Prosody on the Web

Morphology

• Morphology on the Web and on-line dictionaries
• Distributed Morphology
• WordNet - an on-line lexical database
• Lexeme Morpheme Base Morphology

Syntax

• Minimalist Syntax home page: Includes an archive with pdf and postscript files of important and recent papers written within the Minimalist Framework
• The Combinatory Categorial Grammar Site
• HPSG homepages at Ohio State University and Stanford. A central point for resources of people working within the HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) framework. Includes a theory overview, list of upcoming conferences, links to papers, and interviews.
• LFG page. Includes information about the fundamentals of the framework, extensive bibliographies of recent research, mailing list information, and upcoming talks and workshops.
• Optimality-theoretic syntax
  • Optimal Syntax (OT-LFG)
  • Rutgers Optimality Archive
• SGML Grammar Grapher
   
• The Syntax of American Sign Language: American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project
• If you prefer reading about syntax in French: La syntaxe, Queen's University at Kingston
• On-line grammars
• Association for Linguistic Typology

Semantics

• Kai von Fintel's list semantics Web page: includes home pages of individual researchers (many with on-line papers available) as well as "other places to find good stuff"
• Linguistics and semantics links (Peter Lasersohn)
• semanticsarchive.net: site For exchanging papers of interest to natural language semanticists; also includes links to other semantics resources.
• Logic
• Tense and aspect: Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Research in Tense, Grammatical Aspect, Aktionsart, and Related Areas

Linguistic Annotation

• UPenn LDC

Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics

• Logic and theoretical computer science
• Computational linguistics
• Text corpora and corpus linguistics

French Linguistics

• Set of French linguistics links
• The French Library and Cultural Center in Boston (includes an events calendar).
• See also http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4474766510: Facebook page for the French-speaking community in Boston
• Other collections of links:
  • Collection of French links arranged by subject
  • ClicNet, un site culturel et litteraire francophone
  • Collection of French links
  • ARTFL Database: searchable French literature database
• French radio and poetry, music, news, interviews on-line:
  • French Toast: a weekly bilingual radio program of French-language music, news, and interviews. Mondays, 6-8 AM on WMBR 88.1 FM (or listen live on the Web).
  • La chanson francaise sur Internet: http://chanter.com
  • Radio: Radio France, Radio Canada, Radio France Internationale , rfi musique

Russian linguistics

• An interactive on-line reference grammar for Russian

Neurolinguistics

• The Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center

Sign Language Links

ASL: general information

• ERIC/CAL Resource Guides Online: American Sign Language
• About ASL: This site contains information about sign language linguistics, learning ASL, ASL educational programs, and ASL dictionaries.
• CAL digest 1999: American Sign Language as a Foreign Language

Other signed languages

• New Zealand Sign Language and On-line dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (includes information about American Sign Language, British Sign Language, and Australian Sign Language).
• Sign languages of the world
• About Japanese Sign Language
• About Sign Language (with information particularly about British Sign Language)
• Other collections of sign language links: Links from the U. of Hamburg

Sign language linguistics

• International Bibliography of Sign Language
• SLLING-L: on-line sign linguistics discussion
• Projects related to annotation and linguistic analysis of signed languages
   
• Research on signed languages in France and in Canada
  • Groupe de recherche sur la LSQ et le bilinguisme sourd
  • ARILS: Association de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Langues des Signes
  • Institut de Recherches sur les Implications de la langue de signes
• Research on Sign Language of the Netherlands University of Nijmegen

Sign Language Research at Boston University

• American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project

• SignStream: A Multimedia Tool for Sign Language Research

• National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources (in collaboration with Rutgers)

Other collections of links

• Linguist List Resources

• An interesting collection of links from David Nash