Questions tagged [resource-request]
For requests of linguistic resources (like corpora, training data, wordnets, ontologies). When looking for published references, use the [reference-request] tag instead.
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What is the best book to learn about the linguistics features of American English (particularly phonology and phonetics) in detail?
I have a fairly good understanding of the IPA, Chain Shifts, variations within dialects but I still have troubles with lots of phonological ideas like devoicing, weird consonantal clusters tongue ...
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Is the multiplicative case 'validly' present in any languages?
Wikipedia lists something called the 'multiplicative case' in its template of grammatical cases. However, on the (stub) article of said case, it lists only two Uralic languages in which it is found - ...
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*Compact* Context-Free Grammar for English
I have seen that similar questions have been asked here, but the common answer is to look at Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Then, on the internet I just find slides from computational ...
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Differentiating phonemes in foreign languages for adults
I've heard that past a certain critical period for language acquisition, our brain loses some neural connections and thereby the ability to differentiate phonemes not occurring in our maternal ...
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In Search of an Etymological Name Database
Do such things even exist? Attempts at searches turn up rather limited and uninformative sites dedicated to parental demographics, and that's not what I'm looking for.
Specifically, I'm looking for a ...
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Do older adults perceive words in different ways than young adults?
Do you agree that older adults perceive words differently from young adults, and learn more innuendos and double meanings?
I read a science article that stated that adults continue to learn words and ...
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Intuitive phonemic transcription systems for various languages
When a text or video about pronunciation is aimed at the average reader, it often doesn't use the IPA to represent sounds. Instead, it might talk about the "AW" sound as in law, the "AH&...
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Can someone suggest resources to slang and particularly queer/ LGBTQ slang?
I am working on a paper on queer communication and I need resources for sociolinguistic studies on slang and queer/ LGBTQ slang. Thanks!
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Clear introductory sources on Egyptian group-writing
I have come across the term group-writing (originally in a comment on this question but also elsewhere), apparently referring to a system the Egyptians used for transliterating foreign names. However, ...
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Best book for introduction to Syntax, with exercises
I am new to the field of linguistics and I was looking for some books in order to learn syntax.
I put my eyes on two main textbooks:
Basic English Syntax with Exercises, by Mark Newson (I was ...
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Is there a collection of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic transliterations of foreign names/words?
The Ancient Egyptians sometimes had to transliterate foreign names (for example, the name Cleopatra) into hieroglyphs, and I'm sure there are loanwords or technical terms from other contemporary ...
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List of initial consonant clusters in English
At a certain point in a macro I have to determine whether shifting the final consonant(s) of one syllable to the next syllable results in a valid onset. Can anyone point me to a complete list of ...
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Corpus of Taboo card game?
Has anyone constructed a corpus of people playing the card game Taboo, in a purely text-based setting, like a computer chat, rather than face-to-face with audio or video? The closest I've found are ...
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Introduction to compositional semantics with types
I'm looking for an introduction (book or lecture notes) to compositional semantics based on e-t type theory that would be suitable for first-year level linguistics presupposing knowledge of elementary ...
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Source to look up pronunciation of phonetic script
Can anyone recommend a book that a non-linguist can use to look up and pronounce words written in phonetic script?
For example, Wikipedia has this written down: "[ɛks’pɑzətɔri]". I want to ...
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Where online can I find a list of all the Hapax Legomena in the Hebrew Bible?
I am looking for a list online of all Hapax Legomena in the Hebrew Bible in text format that I can copy and paste into MS Word for further studies.
I need something that's free and is not in a picture ...
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Finding articulatory profiles
I have two questions. The first is how is it better to call such pictures? Is the term 'articulatory profile' alright? The second: is there a place on the internet or elsewhere which contains many ...
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Can the conceptual metaphor be approached syntactically?
I am really interested in studying how syntax is connected to cognition. I would like to see if the conceptual nature of metaphor can also be approached syntactically. But I don't know where to start. ...
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Resource for finding languages that contain certain phonemes [duplicate]
In particular /w~b/ or other sounds that could be transcribed as <w> or <b>.
Background: A person gave his name variously as 'John Barosa' or 'John Warosa' in writing from which I figured ...
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Population models in language formation
In the same way that there are population models in epidemiology, for example the spread of diseases, is there anything equivalent in linguistics to model the dynamics of language formation? These ...
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Resources for Indonesian/Austronesian etymology
I'm looking for online resources for Austronesian languages etymology.
KBBI doesn't provide any etymology, which is astonishing for such a notable and official dictionary.
The only source I've found ...
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What etext sources do we have for the Gothic Language?
It is very hard to search for "Gothic" in Google, because it finds modern gothic stuff which is not what I'm looking for. I found the word "𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃" (but I can't find a definition haha), and ...
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Is the source list of “Oxford English Corpus” public available?
The Oxford English Corpus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Corpus) is a text corpus of 21st century English, used by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary and by Oxford University ...
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What is the standard dictionary for linguistic teminology (English)?
I know the linguistic dictionaries that are used in my language, but I'm looking for a specific term and I need an English one. Any tips?
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Is there an appendix of documented sound changes?
I believe at one point I've seen online some sort of appendix where you can look up a particular phoneme, for example, and see how it either develops in certain languages, triggers some form of sound ...
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Cumbrian sources
I'm interested in the cumbrian dialect, but I couldn't find good sources of vocabulary and pontual aspects of its grammar. Also, I was trying to understand the following poem:
I'll tell the'
We're ...
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart handbook
As a gift for a friend who is finishing a translatio degree I wanted to get a large IPA chart poster and would like to accompany it with a guide for it.
I have seen there is an official handbook but I ...
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Need online resources to compare the pronunciation in Latin, Old French and Old English
I'm looking for resources giving old French pronunciation, for instance as IPA.
I know that the pronunciation of old French is quite regular, but I cannot find a dictionary with pronunciations.
I ...
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Is there an API that converts a word into an IPA Transcriptions?
We want to automatically generate the IPA Transcription for a person's name when we create a record for them in our application. Does anyone know of an API service that can do this?
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Nouns used as verbs.What is this process called?
I am milking the cow
He is watering the garden
In English many nouns can be used as verbs.some languages I know , for example, Hindi, does not have this facility.
What is the process of nouns ...
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Which option should I use if I want to learn theories that will account for as much English sentence's structure as possible
Option 1: "Cambridge English Grammar Language" by Geoffrey Pullum
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Option 2: a site which, i think, is based on government and binding theory: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook/
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Do there exist any Phoenician or Etruscan dictionaries online?
I am trying to find a word list for Phoenician but this is all I've found online (a short list, who knows how accurate it is). The only books (without previews unfortunately) I could find were these:
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big english word frequency list [duplicate]
I'm in need of English 100,000 frequency word list.
I hope you tell me about a free option (if available) or an inexpensive one.
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What are the recommended sources for research about conceptual metaphor?
I would like to find what have been done in research about conceptual metaphor. I've looked into some database, e.g. ERIC, Sciencedirect, WileyOnlineLibrary, JSTOR, Cambridgecore, Taylor&Francis, ...
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What is a good etymological dictionary for the Persian language?
There are dozens of etymological dictionaries for Persian, has somebody compared them, and if yes could you recommend me a good one?
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Data set for reasoning?
I am looking data set for reasoning. Basically, more examples like this one:
1. I like food.
2. Cake is food.
Conclusion: I like cake.
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English phonemes audio database
I need an audio file database with any audio format which will contain the 44 English phonemes spoken by different speakers.
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minimal pairs for Portuguese
Does anyone know of a list of minimal pairs for pronunciation, preferably with audio files?
So far the best I have found https://european-portuguese.info/minimalpairs but this is specific to European. ...
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good references for old indo-European languages
what enjoy the most is to trace back the words right to their origin.
i had little study on Mazandarani(tabari\tapuri) dialect spoken is Mazandaran province of Iran. traced back some words to their ...
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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) words with IPA
Are there any resources that can show IPA pronounciation for each PIE word? Either with laryngeals or without laryngeals?
Wikitionary gives me only small list Category:Proto-Indo-European terms with ...
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Is there an english news corpus available to download for between 1900 and 201X (free or low cost)
I'm attempting a word embedding analysis (think underlying meaning and implications, but computational) of certain keywords through time in the English language, but I am having some difficulty ...
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Chinese linguistics: Could anyone give me pointers to the Traditional-Simplified Chinese translated corpora?
I am a computational linguist and I need some datasets to evaluate my Simplified to Traditional Chinese converter.
Could anyone point to datasets which have pairs of Simplified-Traditional Chinese ...
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Extensive English word corpora
I am looking for an extensive list of english words[including American and British... just an exhaustive list]. This list of english words should contain an exhaustive collection of all forms of all ...
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Is there any language where stress can be comprised of diminished expiratory force?
I can swear I read an online article that gave a resouding yes to that question but I've lost it and my memory is uhm, not the best so I'd like a confirmation.
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PoS tagger - technical corpus
I try to find corpus with technical language to train my model, but I cannot find it.
Do you know if there are any tagged PoS corpus in English related with technical language?
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Get Prolog (other functional programming language) rules/facts from LKB or similar system
My goal is to take simple sentence such as Grass is green and convert it to Prolog rule/fact. It does not have to be Prolog, but any other functional programming language with which I can perform ...
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Maltese Swadesh list with IPA
Do anyone know where to find the full Maltese Swadesh list with the phonetic transcription (IPA) ?. I found such list in Wikipedia but without IPA transcription
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One-to-one speech conversation dataset (Recorded over microphone)
I need a publically available one-to-one speech conversation dataset recorded over the microphone, e.g., interview scenario or enquiry or call centre call answering.
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I need a list of common minimal pairs in Thai
I'm looking for a list of minimal pairs in Thai where the only difference is an accent mark/diacritic. One example would be
ห่าง (far) =/= ห้าง (store)
Is there someplace to find this? My Thai ...
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Textbook suggestions for French phonology
I need to write a paper on French phonology for my Phonology class so I was wondering if you could give me some advice on where to start? I'm mainly looking for textbooks either in English or in ...
