Language and Culture: Related Internet Sites

Related Internet Sites

General linguistics links:

About Language (information about modern languages, including endangered ones; website maintained by Language Tutoring, an online reference site from Britain for learning languages)

Ask a Linguist (interactive question and answer service provided by the journal Linguist)

Creole Languages (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

Ethnologue (the major online source of information about the 6,000+ languages spoken in the world today. This is a good starting point for learning about different languages.)

Language Families (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

Nearly Extinct Languages (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

Pidgin Languages (extensive listing by Ethnologue)

U.C.L.A. Phonetics Lab (index of world languages, map index of languages, Index of sounds with voice recordings of the sounds used in many different languages; University of California, Los Angeles)

Yahoo links to Endangered Languages

Language acquisition links:

Bilingual Parenting in a Foreign Language (guide for parents interested in raising their children in a foreign language)

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (University of Minnesota)

Paralanguage related links:

Edward Hall's Proxemics Theory (brief biography of Edward Hall by Nina Brown with a focus on his ideas about proxemics--Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences, U.C. Santa Barbara)

A Short Introduction to Nonverbal Communication (an interesting primer on the subject by Stephan Dahl of Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London)

Linguistics journals:

Anthropological Linguistics (Indiana University)

International Journal of American Linguistics (University of Chicago)

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