How Language Works/References

Websites

• Linguistic Society of America
• Linguist List, mailing list and other resources for linguists
• Ethnologue, database of all of the world's known languages (6,809!)
• American Dialect Society, the academic association concerned with the study of the English language in North America
• American dialect links: links to sites concerned with American English dialects (Note: Many of the sites are not at all scholarly, but still interesting sources of data. And some links are dead.)
• English dialect links: links to sites concerned with non-American English dialects (Note: Many of the sites are not at all scholarly, but still interesting sources of data. And some links are dead.)
• Two sites concerned with endangered languages: Terralingua and the Foundation for Endangered Languages
• ASL Browser, an online American Sign Language dictionary, complete with movies of the signs
• American Sign Language Dictionary, another ASL dictionary, with jerkier movies and fewer signs, but also a few entire stories and some signs from other signed languages.
• Voice of America Language Links, news from the VOA in about 50 different languages
• Downloadable phonetic fonts from the Summer Institute of Linguistics
• A paper by the famous sociolinguist William Labov on the dramatic changes going on in the vowels of many Americans
• "Committing to an ontology", a paper on the shape bias and related issues by Eliana Colunga and Linda B. Smith of Indiana University.
• Estuary English: very useful and informative site by a phonetician and expert on English accents about Estuary English, which some people believe is becoming the new standard accent of England

Paper

• Fauconnier, Gilles. (1985). Mental spaces. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Talmy, Leonard. (2000). Toward a cognitive semantics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Volume 1: Concept structuring systems.
  • Volume 2: Typology and process in concept structuring.