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The American Dialect Society (ADS)

http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/ADS/

This is the home page of the ADS, the only scholarly association 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. Includes membership information, conference schedules, and calls for papers.

American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project

http://web.bu.edu/ASLLRP/

This is a collaborative research project, involving researchers at Boston University, Dartmouth College, Rutgers University, and Gallaudet University. Information is provided at this site on the two main parts of this project: investigation of the syntactic structure of American Sign Language (ASL) and development of multimedia tools for sign language research.

The Association for Computational Linguistics

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html

Includes background information on the Association, conference schedules, abstracts from the Computational Linguistics journal, plus links to related sites.

Australian National Dictionary Centre

http://online.anu.edu.au/ANDC/

This center provides information on research into the usage of Australian English. Includes details on various Australian dictionaries published by Oxford University Press, with plans for an online dictionary.

CELEX Dutch Centre for Lexical Information

http://www.kun.nl/celex/index.html

CELEX has compiled three large electronic databases which can provide online and offline users with detailed English, German, and Dutch lexical data. Aimed at the professional linguist, this database contains representations of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and frequency properties of lemmata for each of the three languages included.

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)

http://www.cal.org/cal/calhome.html-ssi

CAL is a private non-profit organization, that has been applying research and information about language and culture to educational, cultural, and social concerns for 37 years. This site provides information about CAL's history, current projects, and future mission.

Center for Machine Translation

http://www.mt.cs.cmu.edu/cmt/CMT-home.html

The Center for Machine Translation (CMT) at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University conducts advanced research and development in a suite of technologies for natural language processing. At this site you will find project details, personnel profiles, technical reports, and more.

Center for Spoken Language Understanding

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/

This group from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology has a mission to perform basic research leading to advances in the state of the art of spoken language systems. Their Web site follows that mission by providing research summaries, publications, including the full text and illustrations of the Human Language Technology Survey, and more.

The Chomskybot

http://www.ling.lsa.umich.edu/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl

The focal point of this site is a Web robot that assembles random phrases from the works of Noam Chomsky into nearly coherent paragraphs. Also provided is a detailed discussion of the programming behind this robot and the linguistic principles it uses.

Colibri Home Page

http://colibri.let.ruu.nl/

Colibri is an electronic newsletter and WWW service for people interested in the fields of language, speech, logic, or information. A searchable index of current and past issues is available, along with subscription directions and many links to related topics.

English as a Second Language Home Page

http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/

This home page is a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the World Wide Web. Many people have created ESL learning materials for the Web. This home page links you to those ESL sites and other interesting places. The variety of materials will allow you to choose something appropriate for yourself.

ETHNOLOGUE: Languages of the World

http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ethnologue.html

If you've ever wanted to know what people are saying all over the world, this is the place to come. This site includes a detailed study of the names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, multilingualism of speakers, and much more information on over 360 languages currently spoken on this planet. A searchable database and clickable maps are provided to help you find just the language you are looking for.

EUROLANG Optimizer

http://www.eurolang.fr/

Provides information on the EUROLANG Optimizer software package. This program is designed to work with the most popular word processors and RDBMS to provide language translation. Download the demo version from this site. Pages available in French or English.

FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information

http://www.fwi.uva.nl/research/folli/

This site contains information FoLLI's background, current and future projects, and publications. Also find out how to join FoLLI and receive their journal.

Haskins Laboratories

http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/inside.html

Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, is a private, non-profit research laboratory. Currently, most of the Laboratories' research projects are focused on problems in human communication and related topics, including speech perception, speech production, reading, linguistics, motor behavior, cognitive science, nonlinear dynamics, medical imaging, functional MRI, and so on.

Journal of Child Language

http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/Journals/JNLSCAT95/jcl/jcl.html

Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. At this site you will find submission requirements, tables of contents for past issues, and subscription information.

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling/

JPCL presents the results of current research in theory and description of pidgin and creole languages in the wider sense. Includes glossary of linguistic terminology.

Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology (LMBM)

http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/

The LMBM lexicon is exclusively the domain of lexemes which are defined specifically as noun, verb, and adjective stems and the lexical categories which define them (Number, Gender, Transitivity, and so on). LMBM distinguishes itself from other lexeme-based theories in that it maintains a pristine distinction between lexemes and grammatical morphemes and consequently predicts this distinction at every level of language and speech.

The Lingua Project

http://www.loria.fr/exterieur/equipe/dialogue/lingua/

This page is devoted to the Lingua Parallel Concordancing Project, which aims at managing a multilingual corpus to ease students' and teachers' work in second language learning. More specifically, some implementation issues of the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines are shown, along with the corresponding tools which have been developed. Currently, this project has translated various texts into English, French, German, Dutch, Greek, or Italian, and cross-referenced each work in a searchable index of the languages.

Linguistic Fun

http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/linguistics/fun.html

A Bucknell professor has put together this fun and interesting introduction to the study of linguistics. It all begins with the question, "What do a hippo and a feather have in common?"

Loglan

http://www.halcyon.com/loglan/welcome.html

Loglan is an artificial human language originally designed/invented by James Cooke Brown in the late 1950s. This site details the construction and usage of this language. An HTML primer to learn Loglan is scheduled to be available soon, but some translations are already online.

The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/med/home.html

The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) is an experiment in networked scholarship with the purpose of enhancing Classic Mayan epigraphic research. MED is an Internet-accessible database of primary and secondary sources of epigraphic, iconographic, and linguistic data in a multimedia format.

Mayan Hieroglyphic Syllabary

http://www.he.net/~nmcnelly/

Intended for primarily for researchers already familiar with Mayan language and history, this site contains GIFs of Mayan hieroglyphics, associated sound files, and much more information on the Mayan culture. However, this site is also fun to browse, not only to see the hieroglyphics, but also because of the VRML walk through of the 900 AD Palace of the Governor in Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico.

Model Languages

http://members.aol.com/JAHenning/index.htm

The electronic newsletter discussions and articles on made-up languages. Includes subscription information and a software package (Windows) for making your own language.

Multilingual PC Directory

http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/mpcdir/book.htm

The Multilingual PC Directory is designed to help you find products which support non-English languages on PCs and compatibles. A search option by language is available. Includes software reviews, company profiles, and links to Web resources.

Natural Language Computing Home Page

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/ling.html

This page is part of a larger Web site that discusses the design and implementation of a computer programming language that works using real English syntax, not the cryptic commands of languages such as C++. This page relates the linguistic theories of Noam Chomsky to the larger project.

Russian Manual Alphabet

http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jkautz/russian.sign.html

This small page provides graphics that demonstrate the use of sign language to speak Russian.

Semiotics for Beginners

http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/semiotic.html

As the title suggests, this site provides an online course in the study of signs/communication in society (semiotics). Here you get the history of this discipline, current applications and research, and lists of suggested reading material.

UCRELUniversity Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/

The University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language is a Lancaster University research center shared between the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language and the Department of Computing. Its objective is to carry out computer-based research on the analysis and processing of natural language data. This site provides details on the Centre's research, including data summaries, online papers, and conference schedules.

University of Chicago Press Cognitive Science and Linguistics Catalog

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Subjects/Linguistics/

This page is the entry-point into U of Chicago's Gopher-based online catalog and ordering system for linguistics texts. Search by author and subject or read the whole catalog, including book summaries.

The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~njw5/

This recently created online journal includes articles, book reviews, and subscription and submission information. (A print version will also be available.) Submissions are encouraged from any branch of Modern Lanquages.

Word Manager

http://www.idsia.ch/wordmanager.html

Word Manager is a system for the acquisition and management of reusable morphological and phrasal dictionaries. Learn about this system developed in Europe; a demo version is downloadable for Macintosh.

WordSmith Tools

http://www1.oup.co.uk/cite/oup/elt/software/wsmith/

Wordsmith Tools is an integrated suite of programs for looking at how words behave in texts. It is intended for linguists, language teachers, and anyone who needs to examine language as part of their work. Download a full demo version from this site at the Oxford University Press.

The Yuen Ren Society

http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/index.html

Founded for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork, the Yuen Ren Society is a loose group of descriptive linguists working in Hann Chinese. The central focus of this Web site is a guide to Gwoyeu Romatzyh Tonal Spelling of Chinese for the romanization of the Chinese language.