Linguistics : Culture and Literacy - SEL220

COHA is the largest structured corpus of historical English and contains more than 400 million words of text from the 1810s-2000s.

PBS - A celebration of Americans as seen - and heard - through the way we speak.

Searches the development and usage of words and phrases using the contents of Google Books.

A nonprofit outreach education endeavor to document and celebrate dialects, languages, and cultures of the United States.

Sponsored by Indiana University, the aim of the list is to provide a forum where academic linguists can discuss linguistic issues and exchange linguistic information.

The Language Map uses aggregated data from the 2006–10 American Community Survey (ACS) to display the locations and numbers of speakers of twelve languages commonly spoken in the United States.

The Sociolinguistic Artifacts website collects and curates sociolinguistic artifacts. An artifact is a piece of media that communicates sociolinguistic content. Common types of artifacts include audio, video, images, news articles, blog posts, and web sites.

This video lecture is a part of the course 'An Introduction to English Linguistics' at the University of Neuchâtel.

Presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

Follows the unique circumstances of the descendants of American slaves and their incredible impact on American life and language.