Linguistics: Data, Corpora, and Tools

Interactive atlas of extinct and endangered languages. Search by name, location, number of speakers, or degree of endangerment or browse using the interactive map feature.

Database of language endangerment levels with references to collections and recordings of oral literature from archives around the world.

Digital mapping project that integrates language data and information from the physical and social sciences. Users can browse over 700 maps, or create and share their own.

Uses data from the US Census 2000 to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.

Large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials such as reference grammars.

MU Ellis Reference, G1046.E3 A8 1994. Divided into geographic regions containing blocks of maps, linguistic history of each region, genetic relations among languages, their linguistic structure, statistical and sociolinguistics information, and bibliographies of further resources.

MU Ellis Large Room 202; CD-ROM available at Reference Workstation. Provides a comprehensive view of vocalic pronunciation and phonology across North America.

A worldwide virtual library of language resources containing over 100,000 records, covering resources in half of the world's living languages.

Free online searching of seven large corpora from four languages.

Provides browsable corpora, including documentation of endangered languages, data from deaf signers, and more.

Collection of corpora, including transcripts of child language, dementia, aphasia, and second language acquisition.

Lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. WordNet is a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

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.

152 transcripts of academic speech events recorded at the University of Michigan.

Provides access to a large set of lexical characteristics, along with behavioral data from visual lexical decision and naming studies of 40,481 words and 40,481 nonwords.

Allows you to search more than 400 million words of text of American English from 1810 to 2009. You can see how words, phrases and grammatical constructions have increased or decreased in frequency, how words have changed meaning over time, and how stylistic changes have taken place in the language.

Contains more than 425 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.

100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.

Contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. The recordings include speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches.

Database containing transcripts of child language.

Visualization software that allows users to compare the number of speakers of 408 languages.

Search 500 billion words of text to see changes in the frequency of words and phrases in books.

Guide to software used in various subdisciplines of linguistics.

A topically organized list of resources on the Internet that pertain to linguistics computing.

A guide to much of the natural language processing (NLP) software available, including information on how to acquire access.