Linguistics

The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. It includes recordings from forty-three states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and parts of Canada. They were made from 1941 to 1984, with the bulk being recorded between 1968 and 1982.

Various dictionaries and lexicons for research and analysis of French from different historical periods.

A free online portal that provides access to recordings, documents, maps, and other files relating to 3,524 world languages. The resource has been developed by researchers at the World Oral Literature Project. A brief description of the database and its use is also available.

Documents, analyzes and tracks cultural trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English.

Large collection of foreign language media material oriented toward scholars pursuing independent study or preparing for study abroad.

Dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. LINGUIST is a free resource, run by linguistics students and faculty at the Indiana University (Bloomington).

A compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them.

NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning, wrappers for industrial-strength NLP libraries, and an active discussion forum.

Collection of historical and contemporary articles discussing the history and impact of Ferdinand de Saussure and his theory of semiotics.

The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers.

Digital archives of texts from specific speech communities. Spoken and written collections. Part of the Linguist List Project.

Archive of episodes from this radio broadcast, each of which explores some aspect of contemporary language usage.

The interactive online edition of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is complementary to the print edition of 2010. It is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.