Additional Resources |
NY Times: “…Vanity Heart Through Song Lyrics” |
Popular Linguistics Magazine- New evidence for Whorfian Hypothesis in recent scientific studies |
From Science News magazine- “Aboriginal Time Runs East to West” |
RSA Animate – Language as a Window into Human Nature |
For Independent Research |
PBS- “American Tongues” or “Do You Speak American?” |
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) American English dialect recordings |
Speech accent archive at George Mason University (GMU) |
BYU’s list of corpora for American and British English |
American Memory archives list and other sound recording archives from US Library of Congress |
NPR’s StoryCorps |
List of sound recording collections, compiled by British Library |
BBC “Voices” project (similar to PBS) |
Middlebury Library e.g. Lexis-Nexis, online newspapers, etc. |
Federal News Service has all sorts of transcripts–old and new |
MICASE- Corpus of academic English transcripts |
Television Transcripts Database |
Movie scripts and transcript- e.g. IMSDb |
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) |
Presidential Speech Archive |
Solar Decathalon (“home” or “environment” or other ‘tropes’) |
Media analysis (building on or testing Daily Show or Colbert Report segments) |