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Linguistics Departments

The Linguistics Program at UNH and its lab

A few other linguistic departments

University of Pennsylvania's Linguistics Department
This page has links to many helpful resources for linguists.

Swarthmore College's Linguistics Department

General Linguistics Information

The Linguistic Society of America web page

The Linguist Network. This is a great on-line resource of e-mail communiques for the international linguistic community. It includes conference announcements, calls for papers, debates on many issues, job announcements...

A great book describing possible research projects

Links to some companies that employ linguists I knowA list of films about linguistic issues, and a list of films about endangered languages

LINGUISTIC ENTERPRISES This is a non-profit site that aims to help academically trained linguists find private sector employment. It offers down-to-earth advice, how-to information, and an opportunity to discuss prospects and problems with others who have found work or are seeking it. One section of the site is designed to match those wanting linguistic jobs in the private sector with companies looking to hire language specialists. The site is maintained by the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics at the Graduate School, City University of New York, in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America.

The CHILDES database, a big collection of transcribed children's speech (L1 and L2)

Prof. John Limber's home page (Psychology Department at UNH). This page has links to several interesting linguistic resources.

Linguistics resources, a site maintained by the University of Rochester Linguistics Program

Linguistics resources, a site maintained by Sidney University's Linguistics program

Sociolinguistics

Recent MA papers by UNH students

Check out the NWAV 2006 homepage. NWAV(E) (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) is an annual North American sociolinguistics conference

Guidelines for transcription and for extracting tokens.

A comparison of American & British English vowels (sound files and vowel quadrilateral diagrams)

Many recordings in different dialects of English of several reading passages

Speech data and intonation transcriptions from nine urban dialects of British English in five speaking styles

Philly Speak, an article describing the Philadelphia white dialect, summarizing Labov's analysis of it in easy-to-grasp language.

William Labov's homepage, with reference to various "Ebonics"-related sociolinguistic works. (Also known as Black English, African American Vernacular English, etc.).

Highlights of the San Francisco Chronicle's reporting of the Oakland Schoolboard decision on Ebonics.

Using Goldvarb to analyze multivariable sociolinguistic data

Searchable database of resources on Canadian languages and one specifically on Canadian English.

Phonetics

IPA chart | Distinctive features | Lexical sets (John Wells's set of words representing vowel sounds) |

Links to a bunch of interesting phonetics web-sites. | and some more

And a few more. | And a bunch of info about varieties of American English. | American English vowels

Ladefoged's phonetics textbook has accompanying sound files online.

Praat is freeware for conducting acoustic analysis, and doing many other interesting things with spoken language. You can download it and try it out on almost any platform. It's also installed on the UNH cluster computers. You'll find a tutorial at the download page as well.

Phonetic fonts for your computer

You can download font files to install on your Mac or PC. 

Download the Mac version of IPAPhon (compressed as .hqx) 
Download the Windows version of IPAPhon (zipped)
You can learn more about IPAPhon at Henry Roger's site.
You might also try the SIL Doulos font, which is used more widely, but is not installed on the UNH cluster computers.

Express Scribe is really excellent FREE transcribing software (for Mac and Windows). This lets you control a digital recording (Play, Stop, Rewind, change speed, etc.) from inside your word processing program for efficient transcription of recorded speech. You can download it for Mac or Windows. It's very quick and easy to learn. You stop and start the recording using Hot Keys.

  • There is one little piece of information that isn't mentioned in Express Scribe's help files that you'll need to know, at least for the Mac version. In order for the program to read the .wav (or .aif or .mp3) files on your computer, you need to go in to the Incoming panel of the Preference settings and designate a folder where you will/have put the sound files, choose how you want the files to load (one at a time or all at once) and choose what file types you want it to load.

UNH Linguistics Lab.  Description of the software and equipment available, with links to directions for using the various software packages.

A Pictorial Guide to Fourier Analyis

 

 
 

This page was last updated by Naomi Nagy on February 12, 2008