Links, etc.
At UPenn, I used to lead the Wednesday Information Structure and Interface Reading Group: WISIRG. The page is still up if you want to check out the papers we read.
Dialects of English
Valuable Voices -- English variation for educators: https://charityhudleymallinson.com/
Do you like syntax and English dialects? Check out the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America
The American Dialect Society: ADS (the 2016 Word of the Year is singular they)
Useful links
Looking for a LaTeX symbol? Draw it here! Detexify2 - LaTeX symbol classifier
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (free!): COCA
ASL fingerspelling practice -- when will it come to Android?? -- (part of Dr. Bill Vicars's site)
Semantics practice: Chris Barker's lambda tutorial
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: SEP
Looking for something to read? Check out Bedtime readings in linguistics
Fun
My Wu Tang name is Dynamic Menace.
At the ADS Word of the Year vote at the 2015 LSA
Annual meeting, about to make a pitch for "budtender".
And yes, that's Gregory Ward's ear.
Trailer for Seth Meyers's almost-real film, Boston Accent
Who needs lorem ipsum when we've got the Chomskybot??
Bill Cunningham (RIP) will renew your faith in humanity (and demonstrate a beautifully non-rhotic Boston accent): On the Street
Always surprises me, never gets old:
