This page will be updated through the semester. Recently added items are marked NEW.
NEW: Online supplement to the textbook
- Contemporary Linguistics has an online book companion site, with advanced and supplementary materials
Dialect differences, part I -- extra links FYI
- Words for fizzy beverages across the US, by Alan McConchie
- Stanford linguist John Baugh's audio clips illustrating one speaker (Baugh) using pronunciation rules from three different dialects of American English
- Edinburgh linguist Geoff Pullum's view of the difference between acknowledging that different dialects have different grammars, and claiming that a given utterance is ungrammatical with respect to a particular dialect (from Language Log)
Phonetics and phonology
- A collection of phonetics links (some used in class)