English Linguistics->Language Acquisition->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Applied Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Cognitive Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Comparative Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Corpus Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Language Typology->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Lexical Semantics->School or Organization

This is the website of the Linguistics department (applied linguistics) at Georgetown University. The applied linguistics program at Georgetown University is known as one of the best in the field. It focuses on theory and practice in second language pedagogy, second language acquisition, bilingualism and bilingual education, language assessment, endangered languages, language policy and cognitive linguistics. Hence, students can have a broader perspective in linguistics.

This webpage includes an introduction of the faculty members, research area, resources, and various forms for both current students and prospective students. The information is updated regularly. Also, all the information here is very much detailed and well-organized.

This site is particularly helpful for prospective students because of the amount of information on administration and research interests at Georgetown University. Furthermore, it provides detailed information on admission such as minimum requirements, deadlines, and programs available in the university.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://www3.georgetown.edu/departments/linguistics/programs/graduate/applied/7695.html

Keyword(s) : applied linguistics, linguistics department

English Linguistics->Phonetics->In-depth study
English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->In-depth Study
English Linguistics->Phonetics->Journal

This is a unique website of George Mason University that archives a large set of English speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Both native and non-native speakers of English from many different regions read the same English paragraph, and their productions are carefully recorded. This site is frequently updated; currently 740 samples are archived.

For each sample, the website provides the speaker's demographic information, a phonetic transcription of the sample, a set of the speaker's phonological generalizations, a link to a map showing the speaker's place of birth, and a link to the Ethnologue language database. Users may listen to the sample. Thus, this website allows users to compare the demographic and linguistic backgrounds of the speakers and to investigate their accents effectively. In addition, users may post their own recordings.

This site is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. Phoneticians and phonologists who do research on speech accent and who do phonetic transcriptions will particularly find this website useful. Moreover, ESL teachers and students will also find it useful.

This site was last updated on July 23, 2007.

(Last reviewed July 27, 2007.)

URL : http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent

Keyword(s) : phonetics, speech accent, archive

English Linguistics->Pragmatics->In-depth study
English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->Scholar

This website provides resources pertaining to formal pragmatics under the program “Pragmatics Initiative,” designed by Ohio State University. It mainly focuses on presupposition and accommodation.

The program aims to deepen an ongoing graduate study and research in the field of pragmatics, the study of how context affects language use, and interpretation. The website has some links for the sponsors of the program such as the linguistics department of the university and other departments, resources such as articles and annotated bibliography, information about conferences on presupposition and accommodation, and scholars of the field.

This website is useful to those who want to study (formal) pragmatics more thoroughly.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://pragmatics.osu.edu/

Keyword(s) : formal pragmatics, presupposition, accommodation

English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Computational Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->Computational Linguistics->Conference
English Linguistics->Computational Linguistics->Publisher

This web site is the official homepage of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). It introduces the ACL annual meeting, human language technology conference, Coling, the joint conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics, etc. It also shows some publications, computational linguistics (CL) journals, affiliations, and other linked resources.

Since this web site is linked to a lot of associated linguistics groups, most visitors who are interested in any field of linguistics, especially in computational linguistics, can obtain useful information about this huge association. Visitors can order publications on this site, and they can download CL journals in linked web sites. ACL anthology and archives are also linked to this homepage. Particularly, this web site deals with various conferences for computational linguistics; the provided information is quite useful and valuable. It provides its history about linguistics conferences which were held in Europe, Asia, and so on.

Although this web site provides precious information about the Association for Computational Linguistics, it does not represent any basic, introductory knowledge about linguistics itself. Therefore, visitors should not expect to gather any introductory information about linguistics in this web site.

This web site was last updated in May 2007.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://www.aclweb.org/

Keyword(s) : computational linguistics

English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->School or Organization
English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->Conference
English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->Scholar

The Australian Linguistic Society is the national organization for linguists and linguistics in Australia. Its primary goal is to further interest in and support for linguistics research and teaching in Australia. The Society, established in 1967, publishes the Australian Journal of Linguistics (AJL), a journal of international standing, which includes articles from all areas of linguistics, although having a particular focus on linguistics carried out by Australian linguists or about Australian indigenous languages or Australian English.

The Australian Journal of Linguistics (AJL), the journal of the Australian Linguistic Society, is published twice a year. Tables of contents and abstracts from volume 20 can be found from the AJL homepage on the site of the publisher, Taylor & Francis (Routledge). If the users subscribe to AJL, it should also be possible to view articles from volumes 20 in PDF format on the web; otherwise, they have the option of paying to download a particular article.

This homepage is fairly good for graduate students or professors who are interested in linguistics, but there are no explanations or definitions about basic linguistic terms or theories, which lead to difficulties for non-majoring visitors.


This site was last updated in May 2007.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://www.als.asn.au

Keyword(s) : linguistics, Australian English