MERLOT Materials

Has Word of the Day feature which gives pronunciation, etymology, quotation and date chart.

This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an... see more

From a West Saxon dialect to a global phenomenon, from runes to rap, the development of English follows a fascinating... see more

Celt (a.k.a. as the Corpus of Electronic Texts) provides educators, schloars, and students with a free online humanities... see more

This free, online textbook was created by the author believes "that a basic understanding of how language works is just... see more

This lesson won an honorable mention in the 2013 SoftChalk Lesson Challenge. 'At the end of this lesson, you should be... see more

Imagine IPA Letters are a tool for learning International Phonetic Alphabet and maintaining a student actor's skills in... see more

The primary goals of this text are to acquaint prospective teachers of English with certain aspects of the history,... see more

'A tongue-in-cheek demo of New York City's varied accents by each borough: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and... see more

Internet guides, cites of professional interest, cirriculum materials, databases, e-journals, discussion groups.

This website provides a wealth of resources for studying spoken English.

A resource to allow one to create an entire language in the grand scale of J.R.R. Tolkein, The Language Construction Kit... see more

A talk by Anthony Pym in a course in variation in English. - Transcript below: What is diglossia? It’s from Greek: di-... see more

Transcript: There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies... see more

This course presents highlights of the more technical side of philosophy. It studies a cluster of puzzles, paradoxes, and... see more

The Prosody Guide is written for the general user, yet is an excellent book for the study of poetic devices, specifically... see more

As simple as it seems, it's often impossible to accurately translate the word "you" without knowing a lot more about the... see more

The authors distinguish between prosodic functions (what the prosody does) and prosodic forms (what the prosody is). The... see more

This course focuses on the process by which native speakers of a language acquire the ability to speak and understand... see more

Asking and answering questions about what culture entails and examines the fundamental properties and intertwining nature... see more

This course studies what is language and what does knowledge of a language consist of. It asks how do children learn... see more

For teachers, this cite contains links to materials and activities, articles and research, professional organizations,... see more

Interviews with speakers of American English dialects from across the United States, each speaker reading “Arthur the... see more

Foniks is the world's first phonics course where learners can simply mouse over letters and words to hear them spoken - a... see more