Resources

Dictionaries

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

The dictionary by Collins online

Free concordance software

Statistics software for linguists

Software for speech sound analysis

Simple editor

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

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

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

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

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

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