Links and Resources

Linguistics

• The LinguistList
• The Linguistic Society of America - this one's got some good FAQ's about linguistics if you'd like to know more about the field.
• More FAQ, from sci.lang
• If you are in the least interested in phonetic analysis, you must get this FREE program: Praat, written by Paul Boersma and David Weenink. It does just about anything you could hope for, and more. Did I mention it's FREE for download?
• Want to know some basic facts and demographics of virtually ANY currently documented language? Go check out the amazing Ethnologue site.
• The very excellent Semantics Archive resource.
• For the latest look at Optimality-Theoretic phonology: Rutgers Optimality Archive
• Need powerful, flexible experiment-running software on a budget? Check out the free DMDX software courtesy of Ken and Jonathan Forster at the U of Arizona.
• Need powerful, flexible statistical analysis on a budget, too? Check out the R Project page.

Fun, Miscellaneous

• Test yer dialect: are you a Yankee or are you Dixie? (for entertainment purposes only, blatantly stolen from another page)
• Texas city pronunciation guide. Check out Anglification at its most Texan in these pronunciations. And yes, these are how (almost) everyone says these place names in Texas.