ELA Linguistics Directory

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ALPHABETS

Alphabet Evolution

Evolution of Alphabets by Robert Fradkin, U Maryland
• Animations of evolution
º Cuneiform Sumerian pictures -> syllabic symbols ~2,000 yr before Phoenicians' single-sound alphabet
º Phoenician from Proto-Sinaitic glyphs
º Greek from Phoenician
º Arabic from Phoenician
º Phoenician in Greek rotated 90° or non-symmetrical horizontal flip when Greek switched left to right
º Square Aramaic/Hebrew from Phoenician
º Modern Cyrillic from Greek
º Latin

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ASSOCIATIONS
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association audiologists, pathologists, communication disorders
Association for Computational Linguistics - Resources
ELSnet.org European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies
International Phonetic Association (IPA) - Quicklinks
International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS)

Linguistic Society of America:
• Applied Linguistics
• Computers and Language
• History of Linguistics
• Language and Brain
• Links
• Meaning
• Neurolinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Sounds of Speech
• What Is Grammar?

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
also see.. §Natural Language Processing§

DIRECTORIES-Computational Linguistics
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | Yahoo.com

The ACL NLP/CL Universe Links: Dragomir R. Radev, Dept Elec Eng & Comp Sci, U Michigan

Association for Computational Linguistics - Resources
• Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics (SIGSEM) - Resources
• Special Interest Group on Computational Phonology (SIGPHON) - Online bibliography
• Special Interest Group on Generation (SIGGEN) - books, Links, Systems and Software, Who's who
• Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL) - Links

Computational Morphology Introduction; by Harald Trost
Computational Semiotics Ricardo R. Gudwin
Data Oriented Semantics Use It!

computational semantics issues/solutions: Remko Bonnema, U Amsterdam
Frequently asked questions about Computational Linguistics: Institute of Computational Linguistics, U Zürich
HLTCentral: Links, Translators
The International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode: John Wells, Phonetics & Linguistics, U College London
Learning Computational Grammars - TMR-LCG Texts, TMR-LCG Resources: U Antwerpen
Praat: doing phonetics by computer - Manual, Tutorial (pdf): Inst Phonetic Sciences - Links, U Amsterdam

Representation and Inference for Natural Language Use It!

Computational Semantics online books/courses - Patrick Blackburn & Johan Bos

Research in Natural Language Computing: Computational Syntax and Semantics at New York University

SIL Interatinal - Computing & Linguistics:
• Computational Morphology and Phonology
• Hermit Crab Open Source morphological parser/generator - classical generative phonology/morphology
• PC-KIMMO A morphological parser

Software Links : the LinguistList.org

Stanford U - Stanford Natural Language Processing Group:
• Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Meta-index: Christopher Manning
• Statistical natural language processing and corpus-based computational linguistics

Statistical Natural Language Processing Web Course: Joakim Nivre, Dept Ling, Göteborgs U

UMIST - Teaching (Modules/Materials/Links) in the Dept Lang & Ling:
• Computational Linguistics (L2004) online course - intro, parsing, sentence generation algorithms
• Corpus Linguistics Links
• Links to language resources for English language study
• Some Useful Machine Translation Web Sites

What is Computational Linguistics? Hans Uszkoreit, Comp Ling & Phonet, U Saarlandes
The XTAG Project Download Software: English lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism

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FIND
DIRECTORIES-Linguistics
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | LinguistList | Wikipedia | Yahoo.com

Corpus Linguistics corpora & text analysis software - English
Current Language Research (LMBM): YourDictionary.com

Erik Max Francis, Links ( Language and Linguistics Use It!

), SiteMap

Ethnologue.com linguistic Information on all of the world's languages, About, Search, SiteMap
• ($) LinguaLinks Library: Linguistics Bookshelf
• Tools for linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics, literacy
º SIL: Software Catalog "most are free"

LinguistList.org, Links
• Search ethnologue codes & all linguist codes for ancient languages

iLoveLanguages.com, Linguistics
Language & Linguistics Links: The Eclectic Company, John Lawler
Linguistic Resources on the Internet: SIL International (formerly the Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Linguistic Links: Dept Linguistics, U Rochester
Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics Meta-index: Christopher Manning Dept Linguistics, Stanford U
Linguistics, Phonetics and Word Activities Links: English Vocabulary Generator.com

The LINGUIST List - Dictionaries, Links, Software
•airrors: East Mich U, U of Tübingen

MERLOT multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching

UMIST - Teaching (Modules/Materials/Links) in the Dept Lang & Ling:
• Computational Linguistics (L2004) online course - intro, parsing, sentence generation algorithms
• Corpus Linguistics Links
• Links to language resources for English language study
• Some Useful Machine Translation Web Sites

Rosetta Project comparative linguistic research, About, Forum
• 1000 Language Archive archive of 1,000 languages
• Browse Languages by: Coutries, Language ( Family, Name )
• Browse by Text Type:
º Audio File
º Detailed Description
º Grammer, Orthography, Phonology
º Maps
º Genesis Translation
º Glossed Vernacular Text
º Numbers
º Swadesh Word List

Speech on the Web Links
WWW Virtual Library

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HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS & ETYMOLOGY
also see.. §HISTORY§

DIRECTORIES-Historical Linguistics & Etymology
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | Wikipedia | WWW Virtual Library | Yahoo.com

Google Books Ngram Viewer word/phrase usage graph builder: Info

Historical Linguistics, Language Families, Links: AncientScripts.com
Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 4500 Languages: Zompist.com

Wikipedia
º Category:Historical linguistics
• Historical linguistics

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INFORMATION THEORY
Information Theory Primer with an Appendix on Logarithms by Tom Schneider

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MASTERS

Association for Computational Linguistics - Resources, Special Interest Group on Generation (SIGGEN):
• Who's who in NLG

Directory of Linguists - background information & Links to Personal Pages of Linguists: the LinguistList.org
CHOMSKY, NOAM
also see.. §POLITICS-Chomsky§

Noam Chomsky 1928-
º short biography from Minnesota State U, Mankato, Anthropology Biography Web
Chomsky for Philosophers by Paul Bohan Broderick: Kent State U
Language and Mind: Marxists.org - Works by Author, Miniature Library of Philosophy
Noam Chomsky Recent Publications & Snailmail address: Linguistics, MIT

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NEWSGROUPS
comp.speech FAQ Speech Vision and Robotics Group, Eng Dept, U Cambridge
The sci.lang FAQ: Zompist.com
NEWSGROUPS

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PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
DIRECTORIES-Philosophy of Language
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | WWW Virtual Library | Yahoo.com

Conditions on Understanding Language: Ernest Lepore: Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers State U
A Language of Metaphors: Adventures of a Sci-Phi Pilot J.D. Casnig
Philosophy of Language: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy - Links, Search, Boston U
Philosophy of Language in Classical China by Chad Hansen: Dept Philosophy: U Hong Kong
Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Language by Danielle Macbeth: U Chicago Philosophy Project, U Chicago
Review of Frege Making Sense by Michael Beaney: Mitchell S. Green, Dept Philosophy U Virginia

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PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
DIRECTORIES-Phonetics & Phonolgy
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | Studying Phonetics | WWW Virtual Library | Yahoo.com

Auditory scales of frequency & Conversion equations: Hartmut Traunmüller, lingvistik, Stockholms U
Fonetiks.org online language laboratory
Hou tu pranownse Inglish by Mark Rosenfelder: Zompist.com
Human Speech Production Based on a Linear Predictive Vocoder An Interactive Tutorial, Klaus Fellbaum
Interactive Sagittal Section JavaScript consonants articulation & IPA transcriptions: Daniel Currie Hall, U Toronto
International Phonetic Association (IPA) - Quicklinks, International Phonetic Alphabet
International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS)
JavaSpeechLab free speech analysis software: A Drygajlo, Speech Communication, Swiss Fed Inst Tech
JSyn free Java Audio Software Synthesis API and Plugins: Softsynth.com
Linguistics, Phonetics and Word Activities Links: English Vocabulary Generator.com
Link list of Phonetics, speech and acoustics: Miika J. Heikkonen, U Helsinki
Margo's Magical Letter Page - Linguistic Iconism, Sound Symbolism, Phonosemantics & Links
On-Line Phonology course & Glossary: CELT, Stirling U
Phonetic (IPA) fonts Links: Luc Devroye, McGill U
Phonetics and Speech Links: Speech on the Web
Phonology of Languages Phonetic Sheets, Universal Phonetic Markup Language, XML Technologies
Praat: doing phonetics by computer - Manual, Tutorial (pdf): Inst Phonetic Sciences - Links, U Amsterdam
Rutgers Optimality Archive articles; open for all to disseminate work in Optimality Theory
SoundBite reely distributed audio input shareware: Scrawl.com

Sounds from Peter Ladefoged's books - Contents:
• Vowels and Consonants with IPA Chart (audible)

Spectrogram Reading: 126.138: General Phonetics, Kevin Russell, U Manitoba
Speech Analysis Tutorial: Research, Dept Linguistics & Phonetics, Lunds U
Speech Web Sites Links: Dr. Kewley-Port,
Indiana U

Studying Phonetics on the Net Links from George Dillon:
• Phones and Phonemes of English
• Speech Waveform Analysis
• Text to Speech (TTS) Synthesizers and Talking Faces
• Speech Recognition
• Archives and Comprehensive Lists
• Online Courses and Tutorials

U College London Phonetics & Linguistics - Resources
• Analytic Listening: A New Approach to Ear-Training, Ashby, Maidment & Abberton
• The International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode: John Wells
• Links
• PhonologyPad by Dan Albro, do classical phonology problems, free download, Bruce Hayes Phonology I
• Speech Filing System free (copyright Mark Huckvale) Software Tools for Speech Research
• Speech Internet Dictionary (SID): John Maidment

Vowel Charts: Dept Phonetics - Links, U Helsinki

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PRAGMATICS

Guangxi Normal University, Shaozhong Liu
• Library: Library of Pragmatics
• Notes on Pragmatics (MS Word format)
• What is Pragmatics?

Wikipedia
• Pragmatics

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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS & PERCEPTION
also see.. §PSYCHOLOGY§, Semiotics

Categorical Perception of a continuum - online Experiment: Ola Andersson, Linguistics, Umeå U

Human Communication Research Centre, U Edinburgh, Scotland:
• Language Experiments participate in Psycholinguistic Experiments

Wikipedia Use It!

• Psycholinguistics

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SYNTAX & MORPHOLOLOGY
DIRECTORIES-Morphology & Syntax
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | WWW Virtual Library | Yahoo.com

Arizona Minimalist Syntax Archives & Bibliography, Instrucitons & Links: Dept Linguistics - Links, U Arizona
Computational Morphology Introduction; by Harald Trost
Current Language Research (LMBM): YourDictionary.com
Dr. Syntax his Guide to Online Resources for Studying English Syntax, Words and Usage: George Dillon
Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology (LMBM): Bucknell U

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SEMANTICS
DIRECTORIES-Semantics
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com

Colibri Newsletter and WWW-site on language and speech technology and logic
The formal approach to meaning: ..recent developments: Barbara Abbott, Dept Ling, Michigan State U
SEMANTIK Mailing list Subscription Page
SemanticsArchive.net - Links, search

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SEMIOTICS, SIGNS
also see.. Psycholinguistics, §PSYCHOLOGY§, §Symbolic Anthropology§, §Symbolism§

DIRECTORIES-Semiotics
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | Wikipedia | Yahoo.com

Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway resources on Charles Sanders Peirce
The Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms
Joseph Goguen, UC San Diego, Computer Science & Engineering
• Algebraic Semiotics, An Introduction to Algebraic Semiotics, with Application to User Interface Design
• On Notation introduction to semiotics with computer science examples
• Semiotic Morphisms
• The "World-Famous" UC San Diego Semiotic Zoo

Semiotics for Beginners, Chat, Forum, Glossary, Links
• by Daniel Chandler, U Wales
• 1) Introduction
• 2) Signs
• 3) Modality and Representation
• 4) Paradigms and Syntagms
• 5) Syntagmatic Analysis
• 6) Paradigmatic Analysis
• 7) Denotation, Connotation and Myth
• 8) Rhetorical Tropes
• 9) Codes
• 10) Modes of Address
• 11) Encoding/Decoding
• 12) Articulation
• 13) Intertextuality
• 14) Criticisms of Semiotic Analysis
• 15) Strengths of Semiotic Analysis
• 16) D.I.Y. Semiotic Analysis
• References, Suggested Reading

Semiotics of the Web by Philippe Codognet, Virtual building 8, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
Sign and Language in Their Genesis by" Leonard I. Ibraev
Symbolism.org symbolism of popular culture, Links
Indiana U, Semiotic Links

U Colorado Denver, Mryder
• Semiotics Links

What is Semiotics? by Eugene Gorny

Wikipedia: Semiotics
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Umberto Eco

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SOFTWARE
also see.. §SOFTWARE§

Natural Language Software Registry natural language processing (NLP) software Links

^ LINGUIST

TUTORIALS

Linguistic Society of America:
• Applied Linguistics
• Computers and Language
• History of Linguistics
• Language and Brain
• Links
• Meaning
• Neurolinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Sounds of Speech
• What Is Grammar?

MIT Open Courseware Use It!

All Courses Index, Audio/Video Courses
• Linguistics and Philosophy

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WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG (1889-1951)
also see.. §PHILOSOPHY§

Project Gutenberg
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Use It!

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wikipedia
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus discussion & links
• Wittgenstein

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