Linguistics: Web Resources

Listen to accents and dialects from around the world on the internet's #1 archive of primary-source recordings of English-language speakers.

Merriam-Webster, has been America's leading provider of language information for more than 180 years. Learn the meaning, context, and history of words.

Fascinating facts and interesting blog posts about the words we use.

Articles and information produced by experts in the linguist field.

The Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) is a digital repository for preserving multimedia collections of endangered languages from all over the world, making them available for future generations.

The Language & Life Project focuses on research, graduate and undergraduate education, and outreach programs related to language in the American South. The project has grown to include the development of many educational and cultural resources, as well as a host of media from DVDs to podcasts to museum exhibits.

Open online videos and materials for English Linguistics. Covers topics like, The Structure of English, Historical Linguistics, The History of English, Linguistic Repetition for Students of English, Varieties of English, and Morphology and Syntax.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.

A corpus is a collection of texts or text extracts that have been put together to be used as a sample of a language or language variety. These are the most widely used online corpora, and they are used for many different purposes by teachers and researchers at universities throughout the world. Compiled by linguist Mark Davies

An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.

Search wizard that shows how keywords and boolean operators work. Fill out the form and it will create a search string that can be used in Google.