Resources
Here you’ll find a collection of links and resources I’ve collected over time. While I originally put these together for my own use, I’ve made them public to share with students and anybody who may find them useful. (Feel free to email me your recommendations)
Overview
Resources for research
Online corpora and datasets
Online searchable corpora
- Corpus of Contemporary American English (Online searchable American English corpus)
- DWDS – Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, more than just a dictionary; for using the DWDS for corpus research, see the online book “Incorporating Corpora” by Nina Vyatkina and Schirin Kourehpaz
Datasets about variation
- Yale Grammatical Diversity Project English in North America, a dataset documenting syntactic constructions in non-standard American English varieties, from YALE university
- Datenbank für gesprochenes Deutsch (Database for spoken German) from Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache at the University of Mannheim
Negation and NPIs
- The collection of idiosyncratically distributed items (NPIs, bound morphemes) from Göthe University Frankfurt
- Collection of results and annotated text from the project “Typologie der Negation in den obugrischen und samojedischen Sprachen (NOS)” (Typology of negation in Obugric and Samoyedic languages) from University of Vienna
- Datasets for Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation from SEM Shared Task 2012, Montreal, Canada
Other
- UCLA phonetics lab archive, a collection of recordings of hundreds of languages from around the world
- Corpus of linguistic acceptability, a collection of linguistic example sentences (from linguistics publications) and grammaticality annotations, by Alex Warstadt
Running experiments online
- https://farm.pcibex.net/
- https://anna-pryslopska.shinyapps.io/PCIbex-Explorer/
- https://www.jspsych.org/v7/
- https://github.com/tmalsburg/selfhost_ling_expts
Other
Learning and teaching
Semantics
- Invitation to formal semantics, an online text book by Liz Coppock and Lucas Champollion
Variation and dialects
- German dialect quiz
- Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache (dialect maps for German)
- NYT American English dialect quiz (paywalled)
- Speech perception zine, by Emily Remirez
Phonetics
- Browser IPA keyboard by Tomasz Szynalski
- Interactive IPA chart with sound from UCLA
- Interactive IPA charts with ultrasound/MRI video (and sound) from University of Glasgow
- An online demo of an AI-project, which converts sentences from (m)any languages into a sequence of articulatory features by Florian Lux (Uni Stuttgart)
In the classroom
- “Make your theoretical syntax classroom more LGBTQ-friendly with these 5 quick tips!” blog post by Kirby Conrod on QueerLinguistics.org, a blog about the relationship between language and LGBTQIA+ issues
Writing Term papers and theses
- Guidelines for papers and theses, by Judith Tonhauser
- Ten simple rules for structuring papers, by Brett Mensh and Konrad Kording
Advanced learning
Pragmatics
- Probabilistic language understanding: An introduction to the Rational Speech Act framework, an online-book by Gregory Scontras, Michael Henry Tessler, and Michael Franke