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Major
Topics
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Links...
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What
is language?
What is linguistics?
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What
is linguistics??
See information about the subfields of linguistics
Descriptive
vs. prescriptive approaches
Some
sources for prescriptive information:
Grammar
and Style Notes
Resources
for writers
The
UVic Writer's Guide
And,
in a less prescriptive vein:
the
anti-pedantry page
(including discussion of the singular "their " in Jane
Austen and elsewhere)
Will
I be arrested if I end a sentence with a
preposition?
"The
Decline of Grammar" by G.
Nunberg
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Saussure
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Sites
of Significance to
Semiotics
Excerpts
from "Course in General
Linguistics":
the nature of the linguistic sign
on
the arbitrary nature of the sign...:
Sounds
of the world's animals
In
French:
Le
Cours de Linguistique Générale de Saussure
: Le rôle de la langue vis-à-vis de la
pensée
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On
the double articulation of language
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About
Braille
Braille and other tactile writing systems
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Morphology
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Hierarchical
structure of words: see some
examples
Morphology
on the Web
/ On-line
dictionaries
The lexicon: exercises
on the Web
[ In French: la
morphologie ]
Other morphology
links
Humor
showing that not all morphological processes are
productive: "How
I met my wife"
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Phonetics
and Phonology
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Phonetics links
Interesting
site: Vowels
and Consonants
(Ladefoged)
Want
to see Ladefoged
on the set of My Fair
Lady
teaching Rex Harrison about vowel symbols?
See
the tongue position for vowels!
Video
of vibrating vocal
cords
Hear
American English consonants
and vowels
New:
Vocal
tract shapes
New:
X-ray
movies!!
It's
10 below outside
Le
boulanger but onze
bières
Why
did Ken set the soggy net on top of his
deck
Practice
with transcription:
Practice
transcribing words
Practice
reading IPA symbols
Practice
transcription - with sound!
The
International Phonetic
Alphabet
Articulation
demo
Vowel
articulation demo
Hearing
demo
Would you like IPA
fonts
for your own computer?
Kevin Russell's Intro
to Phonetics
Metathesis
Canadian
Raising
Resources
for studying human speech
Tones
and intonation
(Ladefoged)
Other
phonetics
and phonology links
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Syntax
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parts
of speech
See:
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html
http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/parts.html
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Grammar,
by Sandy Chung and Geoff Pullum of the University of
California, Santa Cruz
On-line
grammars
You
have to pay your Syntax
Still more syntax
links
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Language
Typology
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Language
diversity,
by Bernard Comrie
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Semantics PragmaticsDiscourse
analysis
Language
and social interaction
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Meaning,
by Bill Ladusaw
Some thoughts on metaphors: Metaphors
We Compute By
(by John Lawlor)
Some
philosophical approaches to
language
(by Liberman and Sankoff)
Other
semantics
links
Language
and social interaction
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Language
in society Language
variation Check
out this sociolinguistics
bibliography!
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Sociolinguistics
Language
Policy Issues
-- Language
policy in Quebec
Crosscultural
communication and education
Electronic Resources for English Language Study
Varieties of English
Excellent
collection of links related to dialects of English
(some
of which are included below)
The
Phonological Atlas of North
America and a National
Map of the Regional Dialects of American
English
International
Dialects of English Archive (IDEA)
Walt Wolfram's North
Carolina Language and Life Project
You
will find audio files to accompany his new book: Walt
Wolfram and Erik Thomas, The development of African
American English. (Blackwell Publishers,
2002)
"You'll
find a map with different sites. If you click on the Hyde
County site you'll find 4 generations of African
Americans within the same family. On the Ocracoke site,
right across the Pamlico Sound, you'll find samples of
white speakers with a similar "brogue" You should also
find samples of Muzel Bryant, the African American
speaker born in 1904 on the Ocracoke site. Just click and
it will give you options of what you want to
hear."
American
Dialects
Canadian
dialects
British
dialects
English
in other parts of the world
Language
Varieties
New:
See the Speech
Accent Archive!
This
site examines the accented speech of speakers from many
different language backgrounds reading the same sample
paragraph. Currently, they have obtained 196 speech
samples.
William
Labov
How
I got into linguistics and what I got out of
it
New
Yawk Talk
March 12th NPR interview of William Labov on his
40-year study of the various accents of New York
City.
On
dialect diversity in America
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Language
change
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Internet
resources related to the Latin and
Greek
Germanic
Languages
History of the English language
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Links
to information about Old
English
Labyrinth Middle
English texts on line
Multiple
versions of Psalm 23
Grimm's Law
See
it!
Fairy
tale
In
Spanish:
History
of the Spanish language |
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Pidgins
and creoles
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Pidgins
and creoles
The
Creolist Archives
Stanford
University reference guide
Hawaiin
Pitcairn
and Norfolk Island (English/Tahitian)
The Norfolk language
English
Creole of Sierra Leone: proverbs
and stories iin Krio; Montserrat
Creole; Tok
Pisin (Papua, New Guinea) dictionary
Language
Varieties
Interesting
sites:
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Spoken
and written systems
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Ancient
Scripts of the World
Writing
systems of the world
from the University of Oregon
Sites
on Writing Systems
What's
the difference between spoken and written
language?
by William Bright
An
Owed to the Spelling Checker
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Signed
languages
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Sign
language links
For an overview of the linguistic characteristics of
American Sign Language, read chapter 1 of Ben
Bahan's doctoral
dissertation.
See also the American Sign Language Linguistic Research
Project: http://www.bu.edu/asllrp
You can download a report on the non-manual realizations of
syntactic agreement in ASL, with video illustrations, from:
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/reports.html#RPT2.
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Language
acquisition
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Boston
University Conference on Language
Development
Information
about ESL, EFL, and second language
learning
Critical period:
About
Genie: NOVA
transcript:
"Secret of the Wild Child"
Momma
teached me to talk!
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Language
processing
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Brain
and language
Neurology
and Pathology of Language:
an excerpt from an on-line course at UPenn
"Conversations
with Neil's Brain"
by Calvin and Ojemann
Neurolinguistics,
by Lise Menn
Slips
of the Tongue: Windows to the
Mind,
by Victoria Fromkin
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Links
that may be of interest, possibly related to students'
projects
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Ebonics
:
Ebonics
information page
Full text of the Oakland School Board Resolution
Writings
on the Ebonics issue
Labov's
testimony on Ebonics
Links
about the Ebonics
controversy
Ebonics
resources
On
the English only movement (various
opinions):
English
language legislation -- set of
links
Language
and evolution:
Language
and communication, a biological
perspective
(by Liberman and Sankoff)
Language
and gender:
Gender
(by Liberman and Sankoff)
Playful
and artistic uses of language
Language
games, song, verse (by
Liberman and Sankoff)
List
of references
Can
chimpanzees talk ??
On
chimps and their use of
'language'
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