American Dialect Society

Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.

Atlas of North American English

A survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English.

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.

Language and Nationalism in Asia

Research on language and orthographic reform in Han cultural sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.

Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese

A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system.

Language Futures Europe

Links to sites about multilingualism, language policy and the dominance of English in Europe.

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.

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.

North Carolina Language and Life Project

An organization performing research and leading educational programs in representative speech communities.

Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language'

Need language be seen as a continuum of different accents, or as a fixed structure of rules? Undergraduate essay.

Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa

Site details people, materials as well as past and ongoing research studies into results of language contact.

The Global Language Monitor

Essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States.