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The Global Language Monitor (Popularity:  )
http://www.languagemonitor.com/
Essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States.
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Language Varieties (Popularity: )
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/
Varieties of language that differ from the standard variety normally used in the media and taught in the schools.
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PBS - Do You Speak American? (Popularity: )
http://www.pbs.org/speak/
Companion material to a TV documentary examining the dynamic state of American (USA) English.
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Dialect Survey Maps (Popularity: )
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php
Online pronunciation test and maps of answers.
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International Dialects of English Archive (Popularity: )
http://www.ku.edu/~idea/
A repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts.
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Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language' (Popularity: )
http://www.chez.com/phiallfish/und_essays/Sociolings.html
Need language be seen as a continuum of different accents, or as a fixed structure of rules? Undergraduate essay.
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Social Factors (Popularity: )
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/social.html
When two people speak with one another, there is always more going on than just conveying a message. The language used by the participants is always influenced by a number ...
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Atlas of North American English (Popularity: )
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html
A survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English.
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American Russian: An Endangered Language? (Popularity: )
http://ling.ucsd.edu/~polinsky/pubs/american-russian.pdf
Article by Maria Polinsky discussing a case of language attrition.
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American Dialect Society (Popularity: )
http://www.americandialect.org/
Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
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Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa (Popularity: )
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~sociolx/
Site details people, materials as well as past and ongoing research studies into results of language contact.
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Attitudes Toward Nonstandard Language in the Classroom (Popularity: )
http://homepage.mac.com/bibliophiles/attitude.htm
Compares attitudes of German-speaking and English-speaking students and teacher toward dialects of their language. Includes slide show and bibliography. Undergraduate honors thesis of Kendra Banks Perry.
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Lingva Prismo (Popularity: )
http://lingvo.info/ligiloj/listo.php?lingvo=en
Promoting the concept of interlingualism (balancing language equality with effective communication), with language maps, quizzes, and information on world languages and writing systems. In English, Esperanto, and several European languages.
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Language and Nationalism in Asia (Popularity: )
http://www.de-han.org
Research on language and orthographic reform in Han cultural sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
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Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese (Popularity: )
http://ebook.de-han.org/attitude
A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system.
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My language (Popularity: )
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/my-language
Mailing list about "unofficial" languages and varieties from Europe.
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