Wish you were enrolled in an intro linguistics class this semester? Starting a linguistics major and looking for extra help? Trying to figure out whether you should study linguistics and what comes after? Whether you’re just trying to grasp the basics of linguistics or you’re trying to construct a full online linguistics course, here’s a comprehensive list of free linguistics websites, podcasts, videos, blogs, and other resources from around the internet:
Linguistics Podcasts
Specific episodes:
- The International Phonetic Alphabet and vowels
- Constituency
- Gricean Maxims and presuppositions
- Kids These Days aren’t ruining language
- Learning languages linguistically
- Phonemes
- Prepositions and determiners
- Morphemes and the wug test
Podcasts in general:
- Lingthusiasm
- The History of English Podcast
- Talk the Talk
- Lexicon Valley
- The World in Words
- A Way With Words
Linguistics Videos
Modular topics:
Structured video series like an online course:
- Introduction to Linguistics (TrevTutor)
- Another intro linguistics series (DS Bigham)
- Phonology (TrevTutor)
- Mathematical linguistics (TrevTutor)
- Syntax (TrevTutor)
- Another syntax series following the chapter structure of a free online syntax textbook (Caroline Heycock)
- The Virtual Linguistics Campus at Marburg University
- “Miracles of Human Language” (on Coursera from Leiden University)
Blog posts
General
- How much do I need to know before taking intro linguistics? (Spoiler: not much)
- 28 tips for doing better in your intro linguistics course
- How to find a topic for your linguistics essay or research paper
- For typesetting linguistics symbols: What is LaTeX and why do linguists love it? (with sample LaTeX doc to download and modify).
Further linguistics resources about specific areas, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition (first/second), historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, prescriptivism.
- How to make your own paper model of the larynx
- Teaching phonetics using lollipops
- How to remember the IPA vowel chart
- How to remember the IPA consonant chart
- IPA transcription practice
- A detailed explanation of sonorants, obstruents, and sonority
- A very elaborate Venn diagram of English phonological features
- The basics of how Optimality Theory works, with coffee analogy
- Allophones of /t/, explained with internet gifs
- Several good visualizations and explanations of the vocal tract
- How to type IPA on your phone (Android and iOS)
- Various ways to type IPA on a computer
- Morphological typology cartoons
- So you asked the internet how to draw syntax trees. Here’s why you’re confused.
- Types of trees: a sentence is an S, a sentence is an IP, a sentence is a TP
- A step-by-step guide to drawing a syntax tree, with gifs
- Distributed Morphology
- Garden path sentences: how they work, some examples
- Structural ambiguity and understanding people in Ipswich
- How to draw trees on a computer (TreeForm and phpSyntaxTree)
- Pronoun typology and “the gay fanfiction problem”
- The solution to violent example sentences: Pokemon
- The difference between epistemic and deontic, necessity and possibility (with bonus modals as Hogwarts houses)
- Why learn semantics? Comebacks to annoying people.
- Presuppositions, implicature and entailment, and more presuppositions in Lizzie Bennet Diaries
- Gricean maxims in Welcome to Night Vale
- Scalar implicature and a duck gif
- Giving a shit about Negative Polarity Items, NPIs explained using Mean Girls references, and a follow-up on Free Choice Items
- The lambda calculus for absolute dummies
- The Lambda Calculator (software for practising in Heim & Kratzer style)
Teaching & Academic/career advice
- Linguistics resources for high school teachers
- Teaching linguistics to 9-14 year olds
- On writing an IB extended essay in linguistics (& follow-up)
- IPA Bingo
- IPA Jeopardy and IPA Hangman
- Practising syntax trees using cards and string/straws
- Find a linguistics olympiad near you!
- Editing linguistics Wikipedia articles instead of writing a final paper that no one but the prof will read (see also wikiedu.org)
- Should you go to grad school in linguistics? Maybe
- Figuring out if you actually want to go to linguistics grad school
- How to decide which linguistics grad school to go to
- How to look for linguistics undergrad programs
- How to interact with someone who’s just given a talk
- An extensive list of undergrad and/or student-friendly conferences – apply to one near you!
- Advice for linguistics profs on increasing enrollment and supporting non-academic careers
- Linguistics jobs – a series about careers outside academia
- Linguistic approaches to language learning resource roundup
- Will linguistics help with language learning? / Will learning a second language help with linguistics?
- The problem with “economically useful” as a reason for language learning
Further link roundups
This list not enough? Try these further masterposts:
- A very long list of linguistics movies, documentaries, and TV show episodes
- A list of books (fiction and nonfiction) about linguistics
- A comprehensive list of language and linguistics podcasts, from Superlinguo
- A very long list of linguistics YouTube channels and other free online videos about linguistics
- 20 linguistics blogs I recommend following
- How to explain linguistics to your friends and family this holiday season
Updated for the beginning of a new semester!
How to teach yourself linguistics online for free
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