Useful Links

 

Video clips of some animal communication systems
Spiders courtship gesturing

Fiddler crabs claw-waving

Bees dancing

Conversations with KOKO

Phonetics and phonology


Word-formation processes
Link about Borrowing in Middle English
Link about Eponyms in English

Language acquisition clips

Wh-doubling in children’s speech (from work by Stephen Crain, Rosalind Thornton, and Graciela Tesan)
Swedish negation in child English
(from work by Stephen Crain, Rosalind Thornton, and Graciela Tesan)
Berko’s wug test (with Rosalind Thornton)

Sociolinguistics clips
Do you speak American? Test your vowel power!
Northern Cities Vowel shift clip with Labov
American English dialect map clip
Bert Vaux’ dialect survey and maps
Linguistic profiling study
Linguistic profiling ad
Jeopardy with a new twist
An excerpt about linguistic discrimination against AAE speaking students
History of AAE


Other useful links
MLA interactive language map of languages spoken in the US
Ethnologue
: An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages
The world atlas of language structures online

SIL: Summer Institute of Linguistics
Endangered languages
:The SIL webpage on endangered languages.
Software tools
: Computer resources including an extensive library for language researchers and software tools and fonts.