| Promoting Community Languages - From the Welsh Language Board. Ideas and suggestions to agencies, groups or individuals who wish to promote the use of minority languages in their communities.
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| Language Policy Web Site - An exchange of news and views on English Only legislation, bilingual education, endangered languages and related issues of U.S. language policy.
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| Social Factors - 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 of social factors which define the relationship between the participants.
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| Language Futures Europe - Links to sites about multilingualism, language policy and the dominance of English in Europe.
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| Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language' - Need language be seen as a continuum of different accents, or as a fixed structure of rules? Undergraduate essay.
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| Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa - Site details people, materials as well as past and ongoing research studies into results of language contact.
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| American Russian: An Endangered Language? - Article by Maria Polinsky discussing a case of language attrition.
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| Sociolinguistics Quizzes - Questions to assess your comprehension of the various principles of sociolinguistics. Includes a reading list.
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| American Dialect Society - Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
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| Phonological Atlas of North America - Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.
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| North Carolina Language and Life Project - An organization performing research and leading educational programs in representative speech communities.
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| My language - Mailing list about "unofficial" languages and varieties from Europe.
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| Language Varieties - Varieties of language that differ from the standard variety normally used in the media and taught in the schools.
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| Dialect Survey Maps - Online pronunciation test and maps of answers.
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| Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese - A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system.
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| Language and Nationalism in Asia - Research on language and orthographic reform in Han cultural sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
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| Attitudes Toward Nonstandard Language in the Classroom - 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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| The Global Language Monitor - Essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States.
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| Lingva Prismo - 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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| International Dialects of English Archive - Collection of freely downloadable recordings of real people speaking English in their own native accents and dialects. Nearly 300 4-minute MP3 samples available.
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| PBS - Do You Speak American? - Companion material to a TV documentary examining the dynamic state of American (USA) English.
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