English Language Resources Linklist

English Language resources linklist

General 
 

http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html - The HEL (History of the English Language) Home Page (Dan Mosser) 
 

http://britannia.com/history/narintrohist.html - A Narrative History of England (Peter Williams) 
 

http://www.takeourword.com/index.html - Take Our Word for It - A weekly web magazine of interesting oriins of English words. 
 

http://www.worldwidewords.org - World Wide Words (Michael Quinion) - Information about interesting English words. 
 

http://www.britannia.com/history - British History (Britannia) - timelines, documents, monarchs, biographies, etc. 
 

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ - The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Project Bartleby) - complete English literary history. 
 

http://www.bartleby.com/61/ - American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed. (Project Bartleby) - useful for etymologies, which go back to Indo-European roots 
 

http://www.etymonline.com/ - Online Etymology Dictionary (Douglas Harper) 
 

Phonetics and Phonology 
 

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/ - Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish (University of Iowa) - click on English sounds library (requires Quicktime and Flash plug-ins) 
 

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/chapter1.html - The International Phonetic Alphabet (Peter Ladefoged) - vowel and consonant chart, sounds (requires RealPlayer) 
 

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html - The Phones and Phonemes of English (George Dillon) - descriptions, charts, sounds of phonemes 
 

http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html - The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Home Page 
 

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Estairs/phthong/phthong100.html - Phthong (University of Toronto) - exercises for phonemic transcription 
 

http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/softdev2/IPAhelp2/ipaartr2.htm - IPA Articulators (SIL) - facial chart locates parts of the speech-producing mechanism 
 

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Edanhall/phonetics/sammy.html - Interactive Sagittal Section (University of Toronto) - shows points and manners of articulation for various phonemes 
 

Nostratic and the Comparative Method 
 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/020100sci-archaeo-language.html "What We All Spoke When the World Was Young" - Feb. 1, 2000, NY Times article on language superfamilies and the comparative method 
 

http://www.santafe.edu/%7Ejohnson/articles.nostratic.html - "Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language" (1995 NY Times article on Nostratic) 
 

http://us.geocities.com/gevor.geo/chronicle120.html - The Early History of the Indo-European Languages (Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov) - 1990 Scientific American article on Nostratic 
 

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Nostratic_language - The Nostratic Language (Wikipedia) 
 

Indo-European 
 

http://www.bartleby.com/61/8.html - Calvert Watkins' "Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans - (American Heritage Dictionary) IELanguageTree.htm The Indo-European Language Family (18:02) || IELangQuiz.htm Quiz 
 

Germanic 
 

http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html - Tree of Germanic Languages (George Freeman) 
 

http://www.towson.edu/%7Eduncan/germanic.html - The Seven Distinctive Features of Germanic - linguistic features, Grimm's Law 
 

http://web.archive.org/web/20061206011830/georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/pater_noster_germanic.html - The Lord's Prayer in several Germanic languages (Cathy Ball) 
 

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%7Ekurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html Indo-European Language Resources (Sean Crist) - Gothic, Old English, Old High German glossaries, Tocharian texts and notes, etc. 
 

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firsteuro/invas.html The Germanic Invasion of Western Europe (University of Calgary) 
 

Old English 
 

http://web.archive.org/web/20070424195413/http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/old_english.html - Old English Pages (Cathy Ball) - texts, fonts, art, links, etc. 
 

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm#oe - Old English/Anglo-Saxon (Omniglot) - brief explanation with focus on the OE alphabet and its pronunciation; links 
 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/ - Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry - texts of all surviving OE poetry; no translations or recordings 
 

http://english3.fsu.edu/%7Ewulfstan/ - The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Melissa Bernstein) - Old English sermon with http://english3.fsu.edu/%7Ewulfstan/110v.jpg manuscript image, texts, translation; good for learning to read Old English script 
 

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%7Ekurisuto/germanic/oe_bright_glossary.html - Bright's Anglo-Saxon Glossary (Sean Crist) - abridged Old English dictionary 
 

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%7Ekurisuto/germanic/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html - Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Sean Crist) - complete Old English dictionary. 
 

http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/GrammarBook2005/KAGrammar.html - King Alfred's Old English Grammar - complete OE grammar with modern grammar review, useful exercises 
 

http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/readings/readings.html - Old English Aloud (Steve Pollington) - texts, readings in OE Poetry - Click on capital letter for sound. RealAudio http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/index.html - Introduction to Old English  (Peter Baker) - pronunciation, grammar, texts, useful exercises 
 

http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/ - An Online Course in Old English (Murray McGillivray) - pronunciation, grammar, texts, RealAudio recordings 
 

Middle English 
 

http://www.soton.ac.uk/%7Ewpwt/harl978/sumerms.htm -" Sumer is icumen in" (  London, British Library, Harley MS 978, f. 11v); http://english.asu.edu/ramgen/english/audio/perspi%7E1.rm RealAudio (Elly van Gelderen's audio page) 
 

http://www.soton.ac.uk/%7Ewpwt/harl2253/bytuene/bytms1.htm -  "Alysoun" manuscript image (  London, British Library, Harley MS 978, f. 11v); RealAudio 
 

http://english.asu.edu/ramgen/english/audio/perspi%7E1.rm -recording 
 

http://www.soton.ac.uk/%7Ewpwt/harl2253/bytuene/bytms1.htm manuscript image (London, British Library, Harley MS 2253, f. 63v) 
 

http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/index.htm Chaucer's General Prologue (Edwin Duncan) - text, translations, RealAudio readings, manuscript images, bibliographies 
 

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Echaucer/pronunciation/ Chaucer's Language, Pronunciation, and Vocabulary (Elizabeth Rehfeld) - explanations, charts, sound recordings of phonemes and texts, grammar of Middle English 
 

http://courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Echaucer/language.html - The English Language in the Fourteenth Century (Larry Benson) - explanation with links to French and Latin borrowings, bibliography, other useful information 
 

http://www.hti.umich.edu/mec/ - The Middle English Compendium (U. of Michigan) - the MED (Middle English Dictionary), searchable library of Middle English works, and more 
 

http://fas-nt4.fas.harvard.edu/Users/chaucer/pronun_3.0/ 
 

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rashoaf/folia.html - Thomas Usk's Testament of Love (R. Allen Shoaf) - text, manuscript images, audio recording 
 

http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Egelderen/AUDIO.htm#ME - Elly van Gelderen's Audio Page - links to RealAudio recordings of readings in Old and Middle English 
 

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html - Library of On-Line Middle English Texts (Labyrinth) - texts without translations 
 

http://www.towson.edu/%7Eduncan/chauhom3.html - TU Chaucer Course Home Page (Edwin Duncan) - texts, audio, links 
 

Early Modern English 
 

http://www.furman.edu/%7Emmenzer/gvs/ - The Great Vowel Shift (Melinda Menzer) vowel sounds (requires Java plug-in) - useful, informative 
 

http://courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Echaucer/vowels.html - The Great Vowel Shift (Larry Benson) - explanation, charts, vowel sounds 
 

http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/ren.htm Renascence Editions (Richard Bear) - English works printed 1477-1799 
 

http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/%7Ematty/Shakespeare The Complete Works of Shakespeare (James Matthew Farrow) 
 

http://www.hti.umich.edu/relig/kjv/browse.html The King James Version of the Bible (  U. of Michigan) 
 

 
 Modern English 
 

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html - Yankee or Dixie Quiz (Harvard Computer Society) - take a short quiz to learn how much of your speech is Yankee and how much Dixie 
 

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/ - American Varieties (PBS) 
 

http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/ - Dialect Survey of the U.S. (Harvard Computer Society) 
 

http://www.effingpot.com/ - The Best of British: the American's Guide to Speaking British (Mike Etherington) 
 

http://www.americandialect.org/ - The American Dialect Society Home Page 
 

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialLnx.html - American Dialect Links (Claudio Salvucci) - extensive set of links to various regional dialects, many informal and fun 
 

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ - A Phonological Atlas of North America (U. of Pennsylvania) - descriptions, maps, links 
 

http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/index.html - Language Varieties (U. of New England [Australia]) - AAVE (African-American Vernacular English), other world pidgins and creoles 
 

http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/ - Speech Accent Archive (George Mason U.) - sound recordings of various language speakers reading an English paragraph 
 

http://www.mla.org/census_main - MLA Language Map (Modern Language Association) - county-by-county breakdown of over 300 languages spoken in the  U. S. A. 
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml The Voices Recordings (BBC) - sound recordings of dialects in dozens of locations in Great Britain 
 

http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/hellinks.html