Introduction to Linguistics

Related Resources

SES #	TOPICS	RESOURCES
1	Introduction	Linguistic Society of America, a site featuring essays about the various branches of linguistics
2–4	Morphology	Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias, Wikipedia.org
5–7	Phonetics (sounds of speech: production and perception)	The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) The International Phonetic Association hmcnally. “The McGurk effect.” July 3, 2006. YouTube. Accessed February 14, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPtc8BVdJk “The McGurk Effect,” demonstrated by Professor Patricia Kuhl. Sammy, the Interactive Sagittal Section Vocal Vowels: hollow plastic models of the human vocal tract turn the squawk of a duck call into vowel sounds Audacity®, a freeware audio program that can make spectrograms (multiplatform: OS X, Windows, Linux) Praat, a more specialized (free) multi-platform freeware program that can make spectrograms
8–12	Phonology (sounds of speech: their grammar)	The Speech Accent Archive
23–24	Historical change	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages Rosenfelder, Mark. “How Likely Are Chance Resemblances Between Languages?” zomptist.com, 2002.
25–26	Dialects	Peter L. Patrick’s links to linguistic resources The Telsur Project, a survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English