Resources

Dictionaries

Buch und Stift

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the most extensive dictionaries of the English language and also provides information on etymology.

Collins Dictionary

The dictionary by Collins online

 

Software for Linguists

Software für Linguisten

AntConc

Free concordance software

R

Statistics software for linguists

Praat

Software for speech sound analysis

Notepad++

Simple editor

Corpora

Corpora are collections of texts of naturally occuring language that linguists use to validate their hypotheses about language use.

BNC

The British National Corpus consists of 100 million words of spoken and written language.

Childes

The Childes Corpus is a Child Language Corpus for research on language acquisition.

COCA

The Corpus of Contemporary American English contains 440 million words of American English.

SCOTS

The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) contains texts in Scots and Standard Scottish English.

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