LIGN 174 (SOCB 118A) – Gender and
Language in Society
LIGN 101 – Introduction to the Study of
Language
Winter Quarter 2006
Tu & Thu, 12:30-1:50 p.m. CSB 001
Instructor: Amalia Arvaniti
TAs: Peter Jenks and David Peterson
Here are some links which you might
find interesting and/or helpful. The links cover a variety of topics all
related to linguistics in general, or specific areas or fields within
linguistics. Feel free to browse, or to e-mail a TA for more information.
- SIL's Glossary of Linguistic Terms: Don't know what a term you've encountered means? Try checking here. SIL (the Summer Institute of Linguistics) keeps this reasonably large and reasonably good list of linguistics terms which gives comprehensible definitions and natural language examples.
- The International Phonetic Association: This is the official website of the folks who created the IPA. This site features a nice big chart, as well as audio files for many of the sounds.
- X-SAMPA: Many who are online can only see your basic shifted and unshifted keyboard characters, which makes representing the sounds of the world's languages rather difficult. X-SAMPA is an internet-friendly IPA, which has ASCII equivalents of every IPA character and diacritic. This is useful for corresponding about linguistics via e-mail.
- UCLA Phonetics Lab Website: Maintained by Peter Ladefoged, this site features a lot of sounds from many of the worlds languages (click on the links to the two books: A Course in Phonetics and Vowels and Consonants). If you ever wondered what the various clicks or implosives sound like, this is the place to go.
- The Linguist List: This is an online listserv that just about every linguist in America subscribes. Linguist debates occur here regularly. If you're interested in what linguists are saying about pretty much any topic imaginable, this is the place to go.
- The Rosetta Project: This site (hosted by the Rosetta Project out of Stanford) has a lot of information on a lot of languages (though some languages have more info than others). It's neat to browse around. The goal of the website is to document some basic information (phonemic inventory, orthography, history, etc.) of every language in the world. So far, they're doing okay.
- The Yamada Language Center: The Yamada Language Center, run out of the University of Oregon, is a wonderful place where you can get just about any font for any language you want. There's also a lot of other language-specific information, including language-learning materials.
- Omniglot: This is the website for writing systems. It details most of the world's writing systems, and gives plenty of examples, and also has links to downloadable fonts. This is a fun site to browse. (I recommend you take a look at Cham right away.)
- Langmaker.com: Ever wondered if anyone's ever created a language ex-nihilo? Ever wondered what that would look like? Ever heard of Esperanto, Quenya, or Klingon? If so, check out Langmaker.com:: the site for created languages on the internet.
