A direct link to an interactive IPA chart with explanation that includes some of the trickier Andean-specific sounds, from Quechua.org.uk.
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Teach yourself Aymara online.  Hosted by the University of Florida, this website is one piece of an online program for the promotion and learning of the Aymara language and culture.
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A corpus collection of songs, images, and various other culture and language material from the Andean languages.
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Though in Spanish, this website has a lot of accessible online resources for students of Aymara.
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A nice resource for studying and listening to pronunciation recordings and sounds from the Quechua and Aymara (aka Jaqi) language families.
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For academics specializing in computational linguistics, this site offers journals, membership in a professional organization, and events related to the field.
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This is a website that offers downloads for free, open source software.  There is software offered here, for free, that would be of special interest to linguistics, including Tree Form (for drawing syntax trees on a Mac) and Audacity (for editing sound files for field researchers, among others).
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A comprehensive site dedicated to explanations, discussion, and resources for computational linguistics.
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This is a link to the download for “Praat.”  Praat is free, handy software for phonetics recording and analysis.  There is a download available for any of the major operating systems (Mac, PC, Linux, etc).
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A corpus of Mandarin Chinese, developed by Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
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This is a balanced corpus of American English, based on a wide range of genres, including spoken word, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.
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This corpus is developed by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University.  It archives Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, or Formosan languages.  So far there are 7 languages in this corpus, including Kavalan, Saisiyat, Tsou, Amis, Sakizaya, Seediq, and Bunun.  More Formosan languages might be included later.
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An encyclopedia of the “6,909 known living languages” of the world.
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A Wikipedia-style linguistics encyclopedia.
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An interactive language map, brought to us by the Modern Language Association (MLA), those who brought us MLA Style bibliography and source citing for literature papers, though this is dispreferred in linguistics and other fields, in favor of LSA, APA, and other discipline specific styles.
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A handy resource for the historical linguist or layman.
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A huge database, mapping the structural properties of the world’s languages–an impressive resource.
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A dictionary of slang, pop culture and “vulgar” terms.  It’s not perfect, but it is the biggest and best, one-stop source for new and emerging terms in the English language, especially for internet, social networking, and chat lingo and abbreviations, which are a hot topic of sociolinguistic studies these days.
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ilovelanguages.com is a language related web link resource listing.  It doesn’t do too much more than a Google toolbar can do, but it’s worth a look!
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Probably the most famous resource for ESL/EFL professional teachers.  This site has a lot of resources, but it is most famous as a job finding site, especially for Asian EFL gigs.
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Not the easiest to navigate, but if you wade through the adverts and clutter, there is useful ESL meat to chew on here.
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This is a great one-stop bag of tricks for ESL professionals.  Quizzes, games, lessons, and more, this website is a great free resource for teachers and students alike.
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One of the biggest listing of EFL jobs in Japan, including related resources like housing and classifieds.
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An online TESL journal–a mix of amateur/non-academic articles by teachers and different content provider conceived lesson plans of interest.
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This site offers a very comprehensive list of Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes and roots that have entered the English language. It also has an efficient way to quickly locate the prefixes, suffix or root you are looking for.  Thus it could be useful for both teachers and students.
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A mega-library style links page for TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL.  Sort of too much in one place, with no evaluation for quality, but impressive.
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A little collection of traditional flash card type quizzes that could be worked in to lessons without having to type, print, or put them online yourself.
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This library of quickie quizzes and dialogues loads up fast and is easy to navigate.  This one is good*
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A great ESL resource for teachers who want to use the internet as a teaching resource.  The site is run by Dr. Roger M. Thompson, professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Florida.
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This link from “LearnStuff” provides more useful information on IRB standards for ethical human subject research.
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The FEL is a kind of British counterpart to the ELF.
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“A guide for field linguists,” this is one of the few online resources dedicated to linguists working in field methods, endangered languages, and language revitalization.
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This link to the Belmont Report is a useful link for laboratory and field researchers.  The report outlines the ethical and legal standards for human subject testing, which we all need to be aware of, in addition to any individual university policy, before submitting for IRB approval.
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A funding agency that supports documentation and preservation of endangered languages.
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The ELP funds projects that focus on the documentation of endangered languages.
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This is a link to a great online journal published by the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
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Follow now famous linguists, David and Greg, around the planet, as they chase the last whispers of the world’s many dying and endangered languages in their movie, “The Linguists.”
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Here is a link the PBS page where you can view some clips online from “The Linguists.”
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Ah yes, the good ole’ CIA.  They are always looking for qualified linguists who qualify for secure positions.  Here is a direct link to their career starter page.
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This is a link to the general information section of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), which includes a section on “Job Opportunities” for people with academic training in linguistics.
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The CIA is not the only game in town, especially not for analysts!  Don’t forget to give the very large NSA, as well as smaller agencies, like the DIA (http://www.dia.mil/employment/index.htm) and others, a chance!
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Many non-Americans will be familiar with programs similar to the Peace Corps in their home countries, though the US Peace Corps is probably the biggest of its kind.  Check the “Education” and “University English” sections for especially relevant opportunities for linguists.
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For those of you eligible for jobs with the U.S. Department of State, this is where you start.  It goes without saying that people with language skills are highly valued and preferred for these posts.
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The Linguist List website provides one of the most well-known resources for academic and professional positions for linguists.  Here is a direct link to their “Jobs Area.”
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Here is a link to one of many university linguistics department homepages (in this case the University of Iowa) that provides a section called, “What can I do with a linguistics major after graduation?”  This is a fairly typical and reasonably good example.
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A few more ideas for relevant careers.
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Here is a link to the “first” forensic linguistics center at Aston University in the UK.  There are a number of interesting video links here from the inaugural lecture series for the center.
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FCA is a professional forensic phonetics, acoustics, and linguistics company run by internationally renown authority in the field, Dr. Harry Hollien, Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida.  Associates and managers at this company have written textbooks, written important academic articles, performed laboratory studies, and testified in court for murder cases.
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The IAFL is an organization for professional forensic linguists whose work “involves them in the law.”  The aims and membership of the organization extend to any area of language and the law.
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This link will take you to the site of famous British forensic linguist, Dr. John Olsson.  His site gives an overview of the field from his perspective as well as information on the cases he has worked on.
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This is the website for the ongoing “vocal typology” research of Tyler McPeek, PhD student at the University of Florida.  “Vocal typology” is a novel method of classifying talker voices according to degree of similarity (encompassing all aspects of the speech signal), into types that have utility for models of linguistic processing, forensic or voice identification, security applications, commercial uses of voice, and personal interest.
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Here is a short description of the field from a legal standpoint.  Brought to you by LanguageandLaw.org.
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These funny church bulletins provide interesting examples for those who are interested in the study of linguistic ambiguity.
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A linguistic classic, the homepage of Marina Orlova.  Love her or hate her, she’s probably brought more mainstream exposure (albeit of the shallow, etymological type) to the field than any other.
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Language Log is a tweet-style blog posting site for a small group of relevant linguists, covering a wide variety of scientific and non-scientific language topics.  It is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania.
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LingForum is a forum for linguists of all stripes to gather and talk about various issues in linguistics.  Postings related to homework questions, thoughts on particular theories, and asking for comments on working papers are common.  There aren’t many active posters, as most new accounts are created to ask homework question; however, those who do post regularly are there daily
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This is the LSA’s general site.  Lots of things here for those who want to get involved with the academic community of linguists in the USA.  Also included here is the LSA format for source citing, preferred format style for papers in linguistics.
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Publishing style guide for linguistics publications.
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A video archive of linguistics related video clips, brought to you by the Linguistics Society of America.
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This article gives some reasons for a benefit of majoring in English.
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A classic BBC Chomsky interview, wherein he gives a brief description of Universal Grammar principles and the innate biological groundings of language acquisition.
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Speculative Grammarian is “the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics.”
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This is a nice resource, especially the ‘Directory of Linguists,’ under the ‘People and Organizations’ submenu.  This resource is brought to us by Eastern Michigan University.
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Our very own University of Florida Linguistics Department homepage.  Incidentally, UF Linguistics is the fourth listing, first page (at the time of this post) for a Google search of the keyword “linguistics.”  It arrives second only to MIT (Chomsky’s linguistics abode) for university linguistics departments worldwide.
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A few ideas for relevant careers.
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A brief description of the major subfields of the discipline from Wake Forest University.
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A handy German<>English dictionary, that also offers other 2-way translation tools between other languages.
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The TGDP is an organization that carries out research on Texas German speech communities in central Texas.
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This site offers itself as a growing resource on the languages of Myanmar.
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This is the homepage for the Linguistic Society of Nepal.  For those interested in surveying and protecting the languages of Nepal.
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This link will take you to the journal of Nepalese Linguistics.  They look to conglomerate a variety of reports, papers, and research regarding Himalayan languages, especially those of Nepal.  The journal is hosted by Digital Nepal with cooperation from University of Cambridge and Yale University.
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A handy link list of linguistics and language related websites in Japan, from Prof. Gotoo, Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University.
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A necessary addition to the toolbox of the Japanese linguist, brought to us by the Institute for Japanese Studies at The Ohio State University.
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This site is run by University of Florida graduate student, Tyler McPeek, and has lots of useful links, reviews, and other information related to Japanese language learning, corpus material, and the study of Japanology generally.
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This site gives information on becoming a member of The LSJ and lists upcoming meetings. Also, you can browse the archive of the LSJ Journal and find out about the organization’s various activities and “basic principles.”
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An international symposium on Korean linguistics hosted by Harvard University, prominent, published work in the field often finds its US venue here.
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A directory of linguists, publications, and events related to the Korean linguistics field.
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A concise and well-presented introduction to the basics of Korean sounds, with interesting comments on their historical origins.
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An oddly formatted little site, this resource provides a useful database of Korean morphemes, loanwords, and a few other goodies for those in the field.
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This brings you to the homepage for the Linguistic Society of Korea.  The site offers news about the society as well as conferences and work in Korean Linguistics.  You need to be able to read Hangul though, they haven’t put up an English translation of their page yet.
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This is a program that allows you to annotate both audio and video recordings for language documentation purposes.
Link to Download: http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/download
Link to Instruction Manual: http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/manual/ch05s01.html
of linguistics and updated frequently.
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Formerly known as Shoebox, this program is designed to organize lexical entries for the purpose of making dictionaries. Knowing how to do this is helpful for language documentation.

PDF downloads of PhD dissertations, MA Theses, Articles, and Software downloads from the UCLA Linguistics Department.
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A fun little linguistics and language in the news type blog, billed as “a daily news blog for everybody that loves linguistics.”
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A direct link to our very own FloridaLinguistics group weBLOG: “Polyglossia.”

This blog is run by language learning guru Steve Kaufmann, “for people who love languages or would, but were discouraged…”  Somewhat more pedagogical and book-sales oriented than linguistics, Steve never-the-less has interesting insights on language learning and linguistics.
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An amusing blog written by a professor of linguistics and updated frequently.
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Dennis Baron’s blog on language in the news, hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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The basics of distributed morphology theory are laid out in a clear and concise manner here, by Prof. Rolf Noyer at the University of Pennsylvania.
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An outline of an Intro to Linguistics morphology chapter, that gives you all the basic terms and concepts in short order–brought to you by the University of Delaware.
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A good linguists should know basic brain anatomy.  This overview is brought to you by Harvard Med.
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A few of the basics, brought to you by Rice University.
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More brain insights and basics, brought to you by University of Washington.
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This list of language and brain basics is especially useful for it’s definitions of linguistically relevant neurological aphasia disorder definitions.
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For the kid in your life with a burning interest in neuroscience!
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Like Omniglot, this site has some nice typological classifications of writing systems.  It also has useful historical linguistics info, and a unique focus on ancient and/or extant writing systems.
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A link to “Junicode,” a subset of unicode symbols for the medievalist.  This range of approximately 3,096 characters contain glyphs of interest to students of medieval languages.
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This is a great resource for general information about the various writing systems of the world, along with classifications, and well-organized symbol inventories.
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This is the online home of the Unicode Consortium, which has many members, who collectively develop the Unicode Standard, among others.  This standard allows “people around the world to use computers in any language.”  Knowledge of the over 107,000 characters and 90 scripts that unicode encompasses and how to use them effectively and correctly in documents created by computer is essential to any academic linguist.
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This is a great little embedded, click-based IPA keyboard.  Type IPA online, in your web browser, without any downloads or special features enabled in your word processor.  Then, copy and paste the text, and use the IPA you created anywhere you like.  It’s a simple solution to a sometimes frustrating problem of effectively typing in IPA for the occasional user.
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A nice resource, run by actor Paul Meier, featuring one of the best interactive IPA charts around.
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Take a quick IPA transcription quiz, courtesy of “Sporcle.”  No need to sign in or get an account or anything, just take the free quiz and see if you can transcribe all 26 English words, written in IPA, into standard English spelling in 4 minutes or less.  While you are there, you can check out what Sporcle has to offer in the rest of their “language” section.
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This page includes a text accompaniment course for phonetics, from Peter Ladefoged.  The IPA chart is not as good as Paul Meier, but this resource is from a true professional in the linguistics field.  This page will give you all the basics that you need for a foray into phonology and other sound-related fields and has lots of other bells and whistles if you poke around.
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This is a great animated library of the phonetic sounds of American English, German, and Spanish.  It includes animated articulatory diagrams, step-by-step descriptions, and video-audio of the different sounds spoken in context.
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This is the website for the ongoing “vocal typology” research of Tyler McPeek, PhD student at the University of Florida.  “Vocal typology” is a novel method of classifying talker voices according to degree of similarity (encompassing all aspects of the speech signal), into types that have utility for models of linguistic processing, forensic or voice identification, security applications, commercial uses of voice, and personal interest.
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Generative linguistics article archive.
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Blog-style summaries and reviews, with links, to linguistics related stories in the news–this site is updated daily and serves us well for light, daily reading for the linguist.
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A column on language and linguistics from “The Economist” magazine.
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PDF downloads of PhD dissertations, MA Theses, Articles, and Software downloads from the UCLA Linguistics Department.
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