A Short Introduction to the

Interesting WWW Links

by Heikki Kantola

Chapter VI: Language and linguistics

I happen to be computational linguistics student, so languages and linguistics are near my heart.

Indexes

The Human-Languages Page

Comprehensive catalog for language-related information on the 'Net.

WWW Virtual Library: Linguistics

Good source for linguistics information.

HLTCentral

Home of Human Language Technologies

Dictionaries

Dictionaries on the Web

My very own online dictionary listing.

Online Dictionaries

Competing dictionary listing compiled by Robert Beard.

Language information

The Finnish Language

Jukka "Yucca" Korpela's nice page about my native language.

Language & Language Family Information

by The LINGUIST List

Ethnologue

A catalogue of more than 6,700 languages. Lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. Also information about language families, numbers of speakers, etc.

1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters

A fine place to check out the variety of languages.

Linguistic theories

• Berkeley Construction Grammar
• Constraint Grammar (CG-2)
• Functional Dependency Grammar (FDG)
• Functionalism
• Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
• Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
• Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology (LMBM)
• Minimal Information Grammar (MIG)
• Optimality theory
• Relational grammars

Phonetics

The International Phonetic Association (IPA)

The publisher of the famous phonetic alphabet.

SAMPA

Computer readable phonetic alphabet

Corpus linguistics

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

Corpus Encoding Standard (CES)

Projects to create uniformal set of SGML markup for corpora.

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