GENERAL LINGUISTICS

WHAT IS LINGUISTICS?  (Dr. Hislope's area of specialization is second language acquisition within applied linguistics.  Read this article to find out more!)

http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/cal00001.html

The best linguistics site there is, in my opinion.  Every linguist I know is on this.  It keeps linguists around the world up to date on what’s going on (conferences, projects, books, jobs, schools, etc): 

 http://linguistlist.org/

An online dictionary of linguistics terms:

http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/

Frequently asked questions about linguistics:

http://www.zompist.com/langfaq.html

Lots of info on Languages of the World:

http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

For lots of resources for language lovers (especially stuff for students):

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

This page has about 50 links to websites dealing with various language issues (mainly bilingual education and language policy):

http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/LPRU/resources/index.html

Linguistic resources on the internet.  For the serious student of linguistics:

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/topical.html#pedagogical

Video clips related to linguistics on the web (to watch one on Spanglish, click on “select a topic, language variation” and then “news interview, Spanglish”.  This is an interview with a prominent linguist Ana Zentella).

http://www.uga.edu/lsava/Archive.html

The LSA's resolution on Ebonics (from 1997):

http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ejlawler/ebonics.lsa.html

DIALECTS (VARIETIES)

International Dialects of English Archive.  Very interesting.

http://web.ku.edu/idea/index.htm

For an atlas of North American English (interesting info on dialectal variation):

http://babel.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html

To hear and read about some language varieties (pidgins, creoles):

http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/

To listen to some recordings of English accents (from England):

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/

North American Dialect Survey.  Has maps of how different parts of the U.S. use different words to describe things (coke, pop, soda, etc).  Fun!  I love this site!  If the first website doesn’t work well, then click on the second one (for the results of coke, etc) and then you can change the number at the end to go to a different item (105 to 10, etc)

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_105.html

This website contains information not only on general topics such as phonetics, phonology, and IPA transcription, but also information on different varieties of English, such as Southern States English, African-American English, and British English:

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/%7Elsp/

The dictionary of American Regional English.  You can take a couple of fun little quizzes:

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

An online slang dictionary (mainly US slang):

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

A dictionary of Slang from England:

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

FUN STUFF

The language museum.  This website has 2000 languages written out (what a shame we can’t listen to them).  It gives the English translation and a bit of info.  Fun to play with:

http://www.language-museum.com/

The American-British British American Dictionary.  Some fun stuff on here and things like cultural comparisons with many countries, expressions, etc. 

http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/title.php

Short, sometimes funny, tidbits about languages (mainly English):

http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/

To see the sounds that animals make in different languages (fun!!!):

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html

To listen to some stupid different sounds (trumpets, whales, etc):

http://asa.aip.org/sound.html

If you have a fascination with English words, check this site out:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm

This is a fun site.  You can take a quiz to see if you are a "Yankee or a Rebel".  I don't agree exactly with all of their findings, but it's still fun.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

Just for fun, the link to Da Jesus Book (the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin) (click on the left picture “Da Jesus Story” to read about how they translated it):

http://www.pidginbible.org/index.htm

PRONUNCIATION

To work on your Spanish (and English and German) pronunciation.  You hear a native-speaker saying certain words containing the sound and you see an automated picture of how your tongue moves in the mouth when saying the sound.  Great site!

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/#

To hear speakers of over 375 languages read a paragraph in English (good if you ever have an English phonetics/phonology class and just fun to play with):

http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

A website that describes (and you can listen to) English accents and people’s attitudes towards them.  Pretty interesting:

http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/Linguistic/Accents.html

SPANISH SPECIFIC

Page on Spanish linguistics written by a professor.  Good info on varieties.

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/i.e.mackenzie/

Lots of info on the history of Spanish (some fun stuff like the “lisp” in Spain—beware!):

http://spanish.about.com/od/historyofspanish/

To read a report on the field of teaching Spanish to heritage speakers (this is what I did my dissertation research on and will be important to Spanish teachers who find heritage speakers in their classes):

 http://www.cal.org/heritage/sns/sns-fieldrpt.html#CHAR

Spanish grammar exercises (not really linguistics but…)

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html