Linguistics Topical Links
A topically organized list of resources elsewhere on the Internet that may be of interest to the linguist. Last updated January 2022.
Language Catalogs
- The Ethnologue – a catalog of the world’s languages, maintained by SIL
- Endangered Languages Catalog
- Glottolog – a catalog of reference materials on the world’s languages, focusing on underdocumented varieties
Current News and Events
- LinguistList – website and listserve with extensive up-to-date information on news, upcoming conferences, recent publications, and job postings
Professional Organizations
- Linguistic Society of America
- International Phonetic Association
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Association for Linguistic Typology
- Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Association of Contemporary African Linguistics
Pedagogical Resources
- SIL training programs
- SIL textbooks
- MIT course materials on intonation
- MIT Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
Phonetics
- Official chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- IPA chart with sound illustrations
- Recordings for introductory phonetics classes
- Peter Ladefoged’s personal webpage
- University College London Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
- Centre for Speech Technology Research
- Haskins Laboratories – research center affiliated with Yale University and the University of Connecticut
Fieldwork and Typology
- Leipzig Glossing Rules – widely-accepted conventions for presenting grammatical data from other languages
- Typological Tools for Field Linguistics
- Language Documentation & Conservation – open-access, peer-reviewed journal addressing best practices, including technology reviews
- Language Documentation and Description – open-access, peer-reviewed journal
- Documenting Endangered Languages Research Grants – from the US National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities
- Endangered Language Fund
- Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Linguistic Theory
- Rutgers Optimality Archive – extensive database of articles written from the perspective of Optimality Theory
- Role and Reference Grammar
- The Noam Chomsky Archive
- HPSG Literature
- Lexical Functional Grammar
Language Rights and Language Policy
Lexicography and Dictionaries
Text Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
Specific Languages
- Language varieties – includes resources on pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects, and indigenized varieties
- Native American languages
- Bantu languages – information relevant to Bantu languages and linguistics