| SES # | TOPICS | RESOURCES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Linguistic Society of America, a site featuring essays about the various branches of linguistics |
| 2–4 | Morphology |
Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias, Wikipedia.org Derek Abbott's Animal Noise page |
| 5–7 | Phonetics (sounds of speech: production and perception) |
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) The International Phonetic Association hmcnally. "The McGurk effect." July 3, 2006. YouTube. Accessed February 14, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPtc8BVdJk "The McGurk Effect," demonstrated by Professor Patricia Kuhl. Sammy, the Interactive Sagittal Section Vocal Vowels: hollow plastic models of the human vocal tract turn the squawk of a duck call into vowel sounds Audacity®, a freeware audio program that can make spectrograms (multiplatform: OS X, Windows, Linux) Praat, a more specialized (free) multi-platform freeware program that can make spectrograms |
| 8–12 | Phonology (sounds of speech: their grammar) | The Speech Accent Archive |
| 23–24 | Historical change |
Ethnologue: Languages of the World, an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,909 known living languages Rosenfelder, Mark. "How Likely Are Chance Resemblances Between Languages?" zomptist.com, 2002. |
| 25–26 | Dialects |
Peter L. Patrick's links to linguistic resources The Telsur Project, a survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English |
