Linguistics

Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao

(Last updated on November 27, 2003)
kkitao@mail.doshisha.ac.jp

Resources

http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/welcome.html
Applied Linguistics Virtual Library.
**Links to linguistics-related societies and associations, journals, mailing lists, etc., as well as to other virtual libraries
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/VLEJML.html
The Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library Electronic Journals Section
http://www.aquarius.net/
Aquarius Search System for Translators.
**You can either find a translator or, if you are a translator, you can have your name and information about yourself listed.
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/eslsites.html
National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research
**Links pages for various linguistics- and language-related web pages, including general sites and sites in specific categories.
http://jbauman.com/aboutgsl.html
General Service List**2,284 most frequently used words (1953)
http://www.june29.com/HLP/
iLoveLanguagesiLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html
SIL Encore IPA Fonts
The SIL IPA Fonts are scalable outline fonts for both Macintosh and Windows systems. They contain every base character, diacritic, and suprasegmental mark currently prescribed by the International Phonetic Association.
http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/kanren-en.html
Linguistics and Language-Related Web Sites in Japan
**List of links in four categories: online guides and search engines; academic societies and journals; institutions, universities and departments; and projects, groups and individuals.
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/joerg/worldwide/lingphon.html
Linguistics & Phonetics Worldwide
**Links to academic institutions, databases, publications, etc.
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/enter/
LINGUISTIC ENTERPRISES
A Job-Search Site for Linguists Seeking Employment in the Private Sector
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/
The Linguistic Funland
**An extensive list of links to publications, CMC sites, databases and corpora, etc.
http://www.virtualref.com/subj/72.htm
The Virtual Reference Desk: Linguistics
**Links to resources and lists of links.
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/linguist/Default.asp
Linguistics Resources
The goal of this list is to be useful not comprehensive. Several fairly comprehensive sites exist with certain strengths and weaknesses; you can find pointers to them here. The number of linguistics-related sites can be overwhelming, and some are far more useful, helpful, and current than others. Our hope is that this site can help steer your toward the information you are after more quickly.
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/topical.html
Linguistics Resources on the Internet
including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
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SIL Linguistics Resources
Ethnologue, Bibliography, Publications Catalog, School Catalogs, Linguistic Glossary, CELLAR
Conferences, Workshops, Meetings, Symposia
1994, 1995, 1996
Universities and Other Academic Sites
Associations, USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand
Electronic Texts, Dictionaries and Data
Centers, Texts, Dictionaries
Computing Resources
General Information, SIL Resources, Commercial Sites, Software Archives, Software Tools
Journals and Newsletters
Resources Listed Topically
Speech and Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology, Grammar and Syntax, Semantics, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Teaching and Learning, Pedagogical Resources, Sociolinguistics, Text Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, Translation, Scripts and Writing Systems, Languages and Language Families
Other Resources
USENET Newsgroups and FAQs, Mailing Lists and Discussion Groups, Papers and Dissertations, Bibliographies, Publishers and Booksellers, Miscellaneous
Other Indexes to Linguistics on the Internet
**very useful resources
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/hwaet/hwaet06.html
Old ESL-Cathy Ball's Hwaet! software for learning Old English
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/subject/linguist.htm
Resources on Linguistics
**Links to resources in five categories: Electronic Journals, Databases, General Guides, Professional Bodies, and Library Materials on Catalogue.
http://www.sil.org/
SUMMER INSTITUTE of LINGUISTICS
By facilitating language-based development, SIL International serves the peoples of the world through research, translation, and literacy.
http://www.e.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~t.okada/docs/li_lngst.html
Treasury of Linguistics
**List of links, mainly to institutions and professional organizations.
http://www.well.ac.uk/menu.html
The WELL Project (Web Enhanced Language Learning)
The prinicipal aim of the WELL Project (Web Enhanced Language Learning) was to promote wider awareness and more effective use of the World Wide Web for Modern Languages teaching across Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK). It aimed to provide a starting point for academics who wished to discover what the Web and associated new technologies could offer, and also to act as a forum for the exchange of good practice amongst more advanced practitioners.
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/
Yahoo Linguistics & Language Resources List
**Lists of links to web pages on various aspects of linguistics.

Conferences, Events, Institutes, etc.

http://www.linguistlist.org/conference.html
Conferences and Institutes LINGUIST
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/VLConfs.html
Conferences and Seminars Section The Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library
http://www.sil.org/
SIL InternationalSummer Institute of Linguistics
By facilitating language-based development, SIL International serves the peoples of the world through research, translation, and literacy.

Associations

List of Organizations
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/VLSocs.html
Societies and Associations Section The Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library
http://www.emich.edu/%7Elinguist/sp/Societies.html
Linguistic Associations LINGUIST
**Extensive list of links to lingistics-related organizations.

Individual Organizations

http://www.aaal.org/
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
Founded in 1977, the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) is a professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics.

http://www.americandialect.org/
American Dialect Society
Founded more than a century ago, the American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it.
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/langcent/alaa/
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
ALAA promotes the usefulness of linguistic insights into a wide range of social and individual activities, supports the public development of policy in relation to language issues, organises an annual conference, produces the journal Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, edits occasional papers in applied linguistics, provides scholarships for high quality student research in areas of applied linguistics, jointly sponsors the Australian Linguistics Institute with the Australian Linguistic Society and more recently has established an on-line discussion group, APPLIX, which is open to anyone interested in the area of applied linguistics.
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/
The Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation.
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
The INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ASSOCIATION
The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians. It was established in 1886 in Paris. The aim of the IPA is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science.
http://www.lsadc.org/
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to advance the scientific study of language. Linguistics has developed dramatically in the intervening years, greatly expanding the understanding of human language.
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/VLOther.html
Other Resources Section The WWW Virtual Library
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html
The ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning
The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation.
http://www.lagb.org/
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain
The LAGB is the leading professional association for academic linguists in Great Britain, and welcomes new members. Its scope includes all branches of linguistics - formal or informal; theoretical or descriptive; synchronic or diachronic; social or psychological (or neither); concerned with one language or many.

Institutions

List of Institutions

http://linguistlist.org/programs/
Linguistic Programs LINGUIST
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/programs/
mirror site
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/programs/
mirror site
This part of the LINGUIST List site is designed to provide information about programs in linguistics and programs leading to degrees in related fields. LINGUIST currently has 872 linguistics and linguistics-related programs in its database. Like the rest of the information on the LINGUIST site, linguistics programs are classified by linguistic subfield and subject language. In the case of programs, such a classification means that the program has strengths in a particular subfield or language. The system is designed to help students and faculty find programs that specialize in particular languages or fields of study.
http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/
Joensuu University Foreign Languages Department
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/VLProgs.html
Teaching and Research Institutions Section The Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library

Individual Institutions

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/al/
Birkbeck College, University of London
http://www.cal.org/
CAL Center for Applied Linguistics
http://scc01.rutgers.edu/ceth/
The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)
http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/
The Center for Modern Language at the University of Hull
The CTI Centre for Modern Languages, based at the University of Hull since its inception in 1989, is one of 24 discipline-based centres, and aims to promote and encourage the use of computers in language learning and teaching.
http://nora.hd.uib.no/index-e.html
Humanistisk Datasenter, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/
Lancaster University Department of Linguistics & Modern English Language
http://www.cal.org/ncle/
NCLE National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education
The National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE), the only national information center focusing on the language and literacy education of adults and out-of-school youth learning English, works to support those providing such services. For over ten years, NCLE has provided information on adult ESL literacy education to teachers and tutors, program directors, researchers, and policymakers interested in the education of refugees, immigrants, and other U.S. residents whose native language is other than English. This population includes adults who are low-literate and low-skilled, as well as those who are more educated but need to improve their English language skills.
http://www.ling.rochester.edu/
University Linguistics Departments, Programs and Centers maintained by The Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester

Publications

http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/VLPapers.html
Electronically Available Papers and Publishers Section The Applied Linguistics WWW Virtual Library
http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/VLEJML.html
Electronic Journals and Mailing Lists Section WWW Virtual Library
http://linguistlist.org/journal.html
Journals & Newsletters LINGUIST
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/journal.html
Journals & Newsletters LINGUIST

Publishers

http://www.linguistlist.org/publishers.html
Publishers LINGUIST
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/book.htm
Publishers, Software Developers, Bookstores, etc., for TESL/TEFL, Linguistics, and Communication

http://www.linguistlist.org/software.html
Software LINGUIST

Mailing Lists

Lists of Mailing Lists

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists.html
Directory of Language Related Mailing Lists
**Lists of mailing lists related to a wide variety of languages.
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/news.html
Directory of language related USENET news groups
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/organi.htm#mail
Language Related Mailing Lists on WWW
http://www.linguistlist.org/lists.html
Linguistics Mailing Lists LINGUIST
http://www.evertype.com/langlist.html
List of Language Lists
This file lists e-mail distribution lists devoted primarily to the linguistic study of individual languages and groups of languages (though a couple of others, in particular lists for language learners, have been included as well).
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/list/lis-fore.htm
Useful Lists for Foreign Language and Foreign Studies
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/list/lis-ling.htm
Useful Lists for Linguistics and English

Individual Mailing List

http://www.linguistlist.org/ homepage
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/Eastern Michigan University
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/ University of Tuebingen
LINGUIST
ISSN: 1068-4875

Moderators:
Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Texas A&M U. aristar@tam2000.tamu.edu
Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. hdry@emunix.emich.edu
Comments and Postings to: The LINGUIST List linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu
Book Reviews to: T. Daniel Seely eng_seely@emunix.emich.edu
Assistant Editors:
Ron Reck, rreck@emunix.emich.edu; Ljuba Veselinova,
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Ann Dizdar, dizdar@tamsun.tamu.edu; Liz Bodenmiller,
lbodenmi@emunix.emich.edu
WWW Edition:
Graham Katz, University of Rochester katz@ling.rochester.edu Files: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Texas A&M University aristar@tam2000.tamu.edu

LINGUIST is distributed from Texas A&M University, and is produced with support from the Department of English, Texas A&M University, and the Linguistics Program, Eastern Michigan University. The WWW edition is additionally supported by the Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester. Archives are provided by the Linguistics Program, University of Michigan and Texas A&M University.

Links of Interest to LINGUIST Readers:

http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/
Reading The LINGUIST List
**Archive of the LINGUIST List, by topic

Computational/Corpus Linguistics

http://perun.si.umich.edu/~radev/u/db/acl/
The ACL NLP/CL Universe
**List of links to academic departments, conferences, introductory materials, professional organizations, etc.
http://www.clres.com/siglex.html
ACL SIGLEX
SIGLEX, a Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics, provides an umbrella for research interests on lexical issues ranging from lexicography and the use of online dictionaries to computational lexical semantics.
http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl/
the AGFL Grammar Work Lab a collection of software systems for Natural Language Processing
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html
Association of Computational Linguistics Home Page
The Association for Computational Linguistics is THE international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation.
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
THE BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
http://thetis.bl.uk/
BNC Online
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a one hundred million word corpus of British English, both spoken and written. The BNC Online service allows you to search this corpus in a variety of ways and download citations from the corpus, using a computer connected to the Internet.

If you just want a taste of what is in the BNC, you can perform a simple search using the World Wide Web. You can do this directly from the web browser you are currently using to read this page, without registering. The restricted search interface will not return more than 50 hits, with a maximum of one sentence of context for each, but it will support any legal CQL query.

To take full advantage of the BNC Online service, however, you must first download the SARA Client software and install it on your PC SARA is a special purpose browser and concordancer generator, designed specifically for use with the BNC. It is free of charge to all BNC licensees. At present it is only available for Microsoft 32-bit Windows systems (Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP).

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
Cobuild
If you're interested in the English language -- especially if you are a teacher or a learner of English -- then these Web pages are for you. The team here at Cobuild works with a huge corpus of modern English text on computer to analyse language usage: word meaning, grammar, pragmatics, idioms and so on.
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html
CobuildDirect Corpus Sampler
The Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the type of linguistic data that a corpus like this can provide, you can type in some simple queries here and get a display of concordance lines from the corpus. The query syntax allows you to specify word combinations, wildcards, part-of-speech tags, and so on.
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~compling/CL-Allgemein/CMP-LG/
The Computation and Language E-Print Archive
**Automated electronic archive and distribution server for papers on computational linguistics, natural-language processing, speech processing, etc.; since 1994.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/nlp.html
Computational Linguistics
**List of links to professional organizations, information resources, usenet/netnews Groups, etc.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=8BC17B37-0D0A-440D-9F52-036A8563A5B2&ttype=4&tid=10
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics is the only publication devoted exclusively to the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. From this unique quarterly, university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence (AI) investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers get information about computational aspects of research on language, linguistics, and the psychology of language processing and performance.
http://muse.doshisha.ac.jp/corpus/corpora.html
Corpora
**Extensive list of links.
http://muse.doshisha.ac.jp/corpus/
Internet Information Resources  for Corpus Studies by Haruo Nishino
**Lists of links to associations, journals, libraries, mailing lists, etc.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html
Corpus Linguistics by Michael Barlow
**Many links of corpora, not only English, but also Danish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc.
http://clg1.bham.ac.uk/
Corpus Linguistics University of Birmingham
The Centre for Corpus Linguistics takes the Birmingham corpus research tradition commenced by John Sinclair and his pioneering COBUILD project into the 21st century. Corpus linguistics shows how meaning is created and how it can be changed by members of the discourse community. Thus, it empowers people to play an active role in the globalised multilingual discourse that determines the social reality of today.
http://www.elsnet.org/resources/eciCorpus.html
The ECI Multilingual Corpus II
The European Corpus Initiative (ECI) was founded to oversee the acquisition and preparation of a large multilingual corpus (ECI/MCI) to be made available in digital form for scientific research at a low a cost as possible. The corpus has been available on CD-ROM since 1994, and is being distributed by ELSNET.
http://muse.doshisha.ac.jp/corpus/etext.html
E-Texts on the Internet by Haruo Nishino
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/finstring.html
The FINITE STRING The newsletter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
Linguistic Data Consortium $2,000 a year
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/computing.html
Linguistic Computing Resources on the Internet SIL
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/etext.html
Linguistic Data Resources on the Internet SIL
http://www.tesol.net/annodata.html
Links for Annotated Database, Text Encoding, Corpora, etc. Linguistic Funland
http://registry.dfki.de/
The Natural Language Software Registry
The Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR) is a concise summary of the capabilities and sources of a large amount of natural language processing (NLP) software available to the NLP community. It comprises academic, commercial and proprietary software with specifications and terms on which it can be acquired clearly indicated.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/pd-modeng/
Public Domain Modern English Search free
Michigan University
**A variety of types of searches of various online text collections, including the Oxford Text Archive, Project Gutenberg, and the Online Book Initiative.
http://thetis.bl.uk/
Welcome to BNC Online free
British National Corpus
http://www.ids-mannheim.de/telri/telri.html
Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure
TELRI is a European Commission-funded initiative which is creating a viable infrastructure between leading European language and language technology centres in order to provide a platform for industry, research institutes and universities and to supply the NLP community with precompetitive / public domain monolingual and multilingual language resources. These resources are: corpora, machine readable dictionaries and lexica, lexical data bases, and software tools for the creation, re-use, maintenance, valorisation and exploitation of linguistic data.
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel
UCREL (the University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language)
(UCREL's) objective is to carry out computer-based research on the analysis and processing of natural language data. This work increasingly involves collaboration in multilingual projects as well as in research on the English language.
http://cursus.let.vu.nl/let/lat400b1/links.htm
Web links corpus linguistics

English Language

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html
American English
**List of differences between American and British spelling and usage.
http://esl.about.com/cs/britishamerican/
British vs American English
http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict.html
The American-British - British-American Dictionary
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/slang/
Common American Slang
More Than 280 Common American Slang Expressions Sorted Alphabetically
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
Common Errors in English
The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we're concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html
The Distinctive Vowel Sounds of British and American English
**Comparsion of the vowel sounds of American and British English, according to the point of primary obstruction by the tongue in the articulation of the sound, with sound files.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2284/
English to English
**Comparisons of American and British English vocabulary and spelling.
http://eleaston.com/
English Online
**Materials for teaching and learning English.
http://www.academicinfo.net/englang.html
English Language Studies
Directory of Online Writing, Grammar, ESL, TOEFL, Literature, and Dictionary Resources.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/
World Wide Words
All the pieces here are about English words and phrases\what they mean, where they came from, how they have evolved, and the ways in which people sometimes misuse them.
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/wwlib/american.html
WWlib - Notes on American English

Others

http://ling.upenn.edu/mideng/
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English
kkitao@mail.doshisha.ac.jp