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About Underling

Underling provides undergraduates with a forum to discuss, learn about, and work with linguistics, by:

· exposing undergraduates to professional and graduate opportunities in linguistics

· encouraging students to present their research

· Creating a forum between students and professors in the UNC Department of Linguistics

 

Officers for 2009-2010

President: Lanier Thompson
Treasurer: Trent Caldwell
VP/Secretary: Noah Savage
Social Chairs: Mari Hicks
Advisor: Jennifer Smith

 

To join the club, either add yourself to the Underling e-mail list at listserv.unc.edu or e-mail Noah with your name.

 

Linguistic Resources

· The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) from the International Phonetic Association

· The exhaustive Linguistic Glossary from SIL International

· Praat is a program for speech analysis and synthesis written by Paul Boersma och David Weenink at the Department of Phonetics of the University of Amsterdam.

· The Interactive Sagittal Section, a phonetics generator, which is very cool. Check this out!

· The Linguist List a first-rate portal with information about the field and profession of linguistics

· The Linguistic Society of America Video Archive, a collection of brief video presentations about language, intended for the general public and accessible to everyone on the web.

· To learn the language Esperanto this summer or during the school year, contact Noah at noah_savage@yahoo.com*

· The Germanic Lexicon Project

· The "SIL Encore IPA93" font, download: Windows TrueType / Mac TrueType

The "IPAPhon" font, download: Windows TrueType / Mac TrueType / Mac PostScript

· creating a forum between students and professors in the UNC Department of Linguistics