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Linguistics Links
The links on this page have been selected to direct students and professionals to additional information and helpful resources in the field of linguistics & TESOL.
Linguistics Information & Research Help
- University Library's On-Line Resources for Linguistics
This is an excellent source of information, including direct links to databases useful for writing papers, theses, and dissertations. - Department of Linguistics & TESOL at UT Arlington
UT Arlington's Department of Linguistics & TESOL offers graduate studies in Linguistics and TESOL at the Master's and Doctoral levels, with emphasis on field linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and literacy. The UT Arlington Linguistics MA program is the largest of its sort in the world, having granted over 700 MA degrees since 1974. See also UT Arlington Working Papers in Linguistics. - Ethnologue
Catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries - Linguistic Society of America
The LSA is one of the oldest and largest professional linguistics organizations in the United States. - The Linguist List
The largest linguistics website of its kind. It contains a wealth of information about linguistic conferences, jobs, dissertations, journals, books, software, and more. - Language Log
A weblog run by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman, with multiple guest linguists.
Local Colleagues
- The English Language Institute at UT Arlington (ELI)
- Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
GIAL was formed "to provide training and research opportunities in such areas as linguistics, language and culture learning, language assessment and development, literacy and Bible translation, and to equip students with the skills to train and serve others." - SIL International
SIL International has been working for more than 50 years to study, develop and document the world's lesser-known languages. This work has not only contributed to national and international understanding of the richness of human languages, but also served to contribute to the well-being of the peoples themselves.
Software (Downloads from Other Sites)
Linguistic (Phonology) Tools
- CECIL and WinCECIL are acoustic phonetics programs to view speech recordings, automatic pitch contours, and spectrograms. Recording limit is 3 seconds.
- LinguaLinks is a new generation of software that brings you an array of helps to make you more productive in your language work. Its integrated computer resources are designed to support fieldwork by providing on-demand advice, tools, information, instructions, and training.
- PRAAT
- Wave Surfer
- Speech Analyzer is a program designed to see speech recordings, pitch contour graphics, and spectrograms. It supports phonetic, phonemic, orthographic, and gloss transcriptions that are time aligned. Supports unlimited length recordings.
- Sonogram Visible Speech
Linguistic (Syntax) Tools:
- TreeForm Syntax Tree Drawing Software is a java program that runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux, etc. You can build syntax trees, gloss with IPA fonts, and when you're done either export the image to different image file formats, copy it to the clipboard (to paste into your document), or save it to open in TreeForm later. NOTE: You HAVE to have the Java Runtime Environment as well. Get it from Java's website.
Corpus Linguistic Tools
- Online English and Spanish copora at BYU: Free online access to huge English and Spanish corpora
- The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: Free downloadable Mandarin corpus
- AntConc: A freeware concordance program for Windows, Macintosh OS X, and Linux. Does a good job with text files, is pretty intuitive, and easy to learn.
- Dexter Coder/Converter
- WordSmith Tools (evaluation only)
Linguistic Transcription Tools
- If you don't have an IPA keyboard map on your computer, type your IPA using this online tool (at LinguistList.org), then copy and paste your text into a document. (But be sure to be using a Unicode font with IPA in that document.)
- SIL Fonts for IPA Transcription: SIL has produced versatile and attractive Unicode fonts, one of which (Doulos) includes IPA. These fonts can be downloaded free from SIL's website. (Be certain not to download the "Legacy Fonts" – these are not Unicode.)
- SIL's IPA Unicode page provides information about acquiring keyboards for typing in IPA (Unicode). The information can be confusing, so you may wish to talk with a linguist experienced in loading keyboards onto a computer.
- For a good introduction to the topic of Unicode & IPA, read this document (PDF) by Zev Handel at the University of Washington.
General Audio Tools
- Audacity is a freely downloadable multi-platform sound file editor. Import and export multiple tracks, split long WAV files using the label, save as WAV or MP3, etc. (To use Audacity to export your sound file as MP3 you need to have an MP3 encoder like LAME.) Using Audacity, you can...
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- And more! (See the complete list of features.)
- winLAME digital audio encoder
- Cool Edit Pro (30-day trial only)
Computational Linguistic Tools