Resources

Books and Periodicals:

Calvin, William H., 1986. The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Fillmore, Lily Wong, and Snow, Catheine E., August 23, 2000. "What Teachers Need to Know About Language" (summary and pdf file of the paper posted online).

Fromkin, Victoria, and Rodman, Robert, 1998. An Introduction to Language (sixth edition). New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

Pinker, Steven, 1994. The Language Instinct (first edition). New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. (Note that this web link is to the paperback edition, which may be more recent, so my page references may not match it.)

Hickock, Gregory, Bellugi, Ursula and Klima, Edward S., 2001. "Sign Language in the Brain." Scientific American, Vol. 284, No. 6, June. The article is not posted in its entirety, but is summarized at www.sciam.com

Web Resources

Where possible, web-based resources are linked on the appropriate pages. Unfortunately the Oxford English Dictionary Online requires a subscription and can only be accessed from a library that has purchased a license. For that reason the only link is to the news article, although the entries are quoted in the page on semantics. Other online resources I have found of interest about linguistics:

Resources for ESL Teachers at
http://www.linguistlist.org/esl.html   The Language List also has links to online courses in linguistics.

http://www.yourdictionary.com
has links to many online dictionaries and grammar books. It also has a library of essays about linguistics. (The author of the "Phantom Linguist" essays reads very much like Victoria Fromkin.) There are also links to the Bell Laboratory pages where you can hear words pronounced.

The Eclectic Company at:
personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/lingmarks.html
by John M. Lawler, former chairperson of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), includes resources, essays, and a link to the LSA's unanimous resolution supporting the Oakland School Board in the "ebonics dispute."

Phonetics:

IPA chart at http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html

Syntax:

Tool for drawing structure trees at
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/150/index.html
Sean Crist and Tony Kroch at University of Pennsylvania designed a computer program that simplifies drawing structure trees on Macs. A person can download the program and use it for free on a trial basis for 30 days. After that, the license for individual use costs $25.