Linguistics Resources James Madison University

There is quite a bit of information about linguistics available on the WWW. Here are some links to get you started:

• Corpora Sources:
  
  • Santa Barbara Corpus Of Spoken American English - AVAILABLE IN MEDIA RESOURCES IN CARRIER LIBRARY
  • Childes - mostly children's language (Use the database link to get the actual data. You may need to download necessary software.)
  • CALLFRIEND
  • other TALKBANK Conversations
  • Classroom talk
  • All the TALKBANK corpora
  • Switchboard telephone conversations (SWB) (The TEXT transcriptions are probably the best ones for most purposes.)
  • The Brown Corpus of Standard American English (available through guest account at LDC online)
  • Other corpora links and Part-of-Speech tagger links too
• Association for Computational Linguistics
• Bibliographical Sources
• Linguistic Data Consortium
• LINGUIST List
• Linguistic Society of America
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts(LLBA)
• People in Linguistics
• University Linguistics Departments, Programs and Centers
• Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics
• Chomskybot
• Simulated Conversations (Maur the Dragon, Alice)
• Simulated Conversations (ELIZA)