Websites in TESL and Linguistics

APPLIED LINGUISTICS

GENERAL LINGUISTICS

• Battenburg's Linguistics Page  

• Ethnologue (catalog of world languages and their families) 
• I LOVE LANGUAGES
• "Language Files" links
• Linguistic Society of America
• Linguist List
• Linguist List Archives--links to other lists
• Linguistik Online
• Modern Language Association      
• SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms
• Slotkin's Homepage--includes links to wide range of English language and linguistics sites
• Steve Huffman's Language Maps
  
   

GRAMMAR/SYNTAX

• Articles on Grammar--Times Educational Supplement

• Drawing Trees

• Survey of English Usage--Internet Grammar  (available for a limited time)

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• American Heritage Dictionary with Articles and Indo-European roots
• Beowulf Read Aloud
• Chaucer Page
• Cordell Collection
• Dan Mosser's HEL Page
• Database of Middle English (Glossary of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales")
• Ed Duncan's English Language History Resources
• "Everybody loves their Jane Austin"--on singular use of their
• Georgetown--Old English Pages
• Germanic Linguistics (check out the runic inscriptions!)
• HEL (History of English Language) homepage
• ICAME  (International Computer Archive of (Medieval and) Modern English)
• Middle English Dictionary
• Mirriam Webster--"Brief Look at the History of the English language"
• Moot Game--Fun Sources of English Words

• Old English: Modern English to Old English Vocabulary

• Online Resources for Studying the History of the English Language

• Suzanne Kemmer's Chronology of the History of English
• University of Virginia--Electronic Text Center
   

PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

• ASHA (Amer. Speech and Hearing Asso.) ["search site" option available]

• Buckeye Speech Corpus (Columbus Ohio)

• Evaluating English Accents Worldwide

• International Phonetic Association (& Alphabet)
• IPA Bingo
• John Wells' phonetic blog
• Phonetic alphabet fonts
  NEW!!  Doulis SIL Font
  Other SIL IPA Fonts
  http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/phonetic.html
  http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm
  http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/resources/fonts.html
  http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/phonetic.html
• Phonetics Resources
• Phonics and accents of English: a view from phonetics (John Wells)
• Phonological Atlas of North America
• Praat Speech Analysis Software (free)
• Pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese

• Searchable English Pronunciation Website

• Smalley's Manual of Articulatory Phonetics-recorded exercises

• UCLA Phonetics Archive (Hear the IPA pronounced!)

• X-Refer Plus-- including Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics and a Rhyming Dictionary
   

VARIETIES OF ENGLISH

• American Dialect Society (including searchable archive)
• BBC: "Word for Word"- 6 45-min. programs on language in the British Isles
• British Library's "Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK"
• Buckeye Speech Corpus (Columbus Ohio)
• Ebonics
• Harvard Dialect Survey
• Language in U.S. Society
• Linguistic Atlas of U.S.
• Research Committee on Sociolinguistics
• Rickford's Ebonics Page
• Varieties of English, Language Samples Project, University of Arizona
• Yankee or Dixie? (A fun quiz)
   

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Professional Development for TESOL Graduate Students

MISCELLANEOUS

• American Name Society 
• Computerized Profiling
• Corpus del Español
• Endangered Languages (from NPR's "Science Friday")
• Endangered Languages--Films
  
  Related Links:
  Language samples from Cameroon and Ivory Coast (courtesy
  Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania)
  Language samples from Vietnam (courtesy Jerry Edmondson,
  University of Texas at Arlington)
  Native Word of the Day (from KNBA-Anchorage)
  Iñupiaq Phrasebook (courtesy Jim Kerr, University of Alaska)
  Alaskool: Alaska Native Languages
  Endangered Language Fund
  Foundation for Endangered Languages
   
• Hello and Goodbye in Different Languages

• Karen Chung's Language and Linguistics Links      

• Language Novelties
• The Speculative Grammarian (strictly for fun!)
   

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