Mutual Intelligibility - 6 Resource Guides
Mutual Intelligibility has created 6 resource guides for major topics in linguistics. These guides include the best online resources for each topic, with notes on their content, accessibility and use.
Each of these guides has a link to online PDF and Google Docs versions. We’ve given them Creative Commons licenses, so you can share them directly with students and colleagues.
We teamed up with Kate Whitcomb (Layman’s Linguist) for these guides. Mutual Intelligibility will continue with weekly 3 Links posts, bringing you the best linguistics resources on the internet for your classes, or self-directed study.
Introduction to IPA Consonants - Resource Guide 1
The International Phonetic Alphabet is sort of like the Periodic Table of the Elements for linguistics, or at least for phonetics — when we’re talking about spoken languages, it’s useful to be able to convey precisely and unambiguously in writing exactly which sounds we’re talking about, even when people may have different accents, dialects, or pet spelling conventions.
Introduction to IPA Vowels - Resource Guide 2
Today’s newsletter is our second Resource Guide, and it’s for teaching the vowels of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a classic intro linguistics course topic, with a few resources for working with the IPA in general. This guide is a companion to Introduction to IPA Consonants (Resource Guide 1). Vowels in particular require particular attention because they are more of gradient than categorical phenomena.
Introduction to Morphology - Resource Guide 3
Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words. Studying morphology can help us understand how different languages create new words and modify existing words.
Introduction to Constituency - Resource Guide 4
There are many ways to approach the details of what kind of basic sentence structure to teach intro students to draw, so it would be impossible to put together a resource on tree-drawing that would satisfy everyone, but what these disparate approaches have in common is that they all come back to constituency.
Introduction to World Englishes - Resource Guide 5
World Englishes is a common topic for beginner classes. It’s a way of connecting linguistics to students’ experience with the English language, and to expand their perspectives on how different regions and populations speak English.
Introduction to Linguistic Diversity - Resource Guide 6
The best way to appreciate linguistics is to understand the diverse range of the world’s languages and the people who speak them. These resources can be used to enrich a variety of subjects.
Mutual Intelligibility is a project to connect linguistics instructors with online resources, especially as so much teaching is shifting quickly online due to current events. It’s produced by Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch, with the support of our patrons on Lingthusiasm.
Here’s where you can tell us which topics would be useful for you. The more requests we get for a specific topic, the more it helps us prioritize resources that will help the most people.
Here’s where you can send us links (of either things you’ve made or have found useful) for potential inclusion in future newsletters. You can send a single link, or a set of three which may become a 3 Links guest-post! (With credit to you.)
