Resources
If you're in a graduate program in linguistics, I highly recommend this book.
Handouts and Other Materials
- Download the sample linguistics abstract from the workshop I gave with Ana Peluffo in 2002 on writing conference abstracts [PDF]
- Abstracts and how to write them (Doug Arnold, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex)
- Conference resources for linguistics: how and where to submit abstracts (Department of Linguistics, UNC Chapel Hill)
- Download the handout from the workshop I gave in February 2004 on using Microsoft Word for writing papers in linguistics [PDF] [DOC]
- 12 Tips for Creating Better [PowerPoint] Presentations (Stephanie Krieger, Microsoft Document Production Expert)
My Posts and Comments On Phonoloblog
- Vowel harmony at Starbucks? (11/6/06)
- Comment on Truncated berries (8/30/2006)
- Prescription jugs (5/6/2006)
- Comment on defibulator (3/24/06)
- "Lexical listing" and hybrid approaches (2/14/06)
- Comment on Formal phonology and assurance (2/9/06)
- Comment on A leap of faith? (2/3/06)
- A leap of faith? (2/3/06)
- Comment on The jug trade (2/1/06)
- Comment on The Zomb (11/1/05)
- Comment on Monosegmental affricate, bisegmental cluster? (10/26/05)
- Comment on Show me the magic (10/26/05)
- Monosegmental affricate, bisegmental cluster? (10/21/05)
- Comment on Foreign pronunciation (10/3/05)
- Examples of Judeo-Spanish innovations in an online discussion group (8/23/05)
- Re: More vowel fragments (8/9/04)
- Re: Spanish taps at the DNC (7/3/04)
Links
Academic and professional
- General tips for reading scholarly articles [PDF] - Advice from Kie Zuraw on how to read academic papers
- How to Apply for Academic Jobs in Linguistics - Advice from the UCLA Department of Linguistics for graduate students looking for jobs in this field
- How to Write a Scientific Research Paper [PDF] - Advice from Professor Peter Wenderoth
- Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students - This book, written by Monica Macaulay, should be required reading by all graduate students in linguistics.
- Tips on Writing a Linguistics Paper - Advice from the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University
- Writing Research Papers - Advice from David R. Caprette at Rice University
Language references, databases, and corpora
- Corpus del Español - A corpus of Spanish-language texts from different time periods
- Diksionario de Ladinokomunita - A multilingual Judeo-Spanish/Castilian/English/Turkish dictionary
- Ladinokomunita - A correspondence circle for speakers of Judeo-Spanish
- Nordavinden og sola - A Norwegian dialect database based on the text "The North Wind and the Sun"
- Nuevo Tesoro Lexicográfico de la Lengua Española - A digitally-scanned and fully searchable old Spanish dictionaries
- Ultralingua Web Online Multilingual Dictionary
- Web-Compjugador - A Spanish verb conjugator
- WordReference.com Online Multilingual Dictionary
- yourdictionary.com - A language portal with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, games that build language skills, and a forum for discussing language issues with the logophile community
Linguistics, phonology, and phonetics
- Concat - A Wiki-based catalogue of constraints that have been proposed in the literature on Optimality Theory
- Language Log - A web log about language and linguistics
- Linguist List - A collection of resources for linguists, including archives of an e-mail distribution list
- Linguistic Society of America - The professional association for linguists
- Phonolinks - A collection of phonetics and phonology links and resources
- Phonoloblog - The web log for discussion of all things phonology
- Rutgers Optimality Archive - The distribution point for research in Optimality Theory
Page updated June 17, 2008