Links

Corpora of English: 

• The Speech Accent archive – speakers of many different English accents – http://accent.gmu.edu
• A collection of corpora of English varieties – http://corpus.byu.edu
• The International Corpus of English – http://ice-corpora.net/ice/
• The British National Corpus – http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk
• The NIE corpus of Spoken Singapore English – http://videoweb.nie.edu.sg/phonetic/niecsse/
• Australian Corpus of English – http://www.ausnc.org.au/corpora/ace
• AusTalk – https://austalk.edu.au

Linguistics podcasts:

• Lingthusiasm – nice intro level linguistics podcast from two brilliant (and hilarious) linguists – http://lingthusiasm.com

Playing with phonetics:

• Praat: my go-to phonetics software – http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
• The Pink Trombone: a manipulable model of the vocal tract – https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
• PraatR: an architecture for controlling Praat within the R environment (see below) – http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~albin/praatr/index.html

Statistics:

• R: my go-to (free, open-source) statistics programme – https://www.r-project.org
• RStudio: User-friendly (and also free, open source) integrated environment for running R – https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/
• JASP: Even more user-friendly (and, incredibly, still free & open-source) , WYSIWYG software for doing basic stats – https://jasp-stats.org
• Bodo Winter’s stats tutorials: extremely helpful intros to understanding & implementing many useful statistical tools – http://www.bodowinter.com/tutorials.html
• Excellent tutorial for bayesian ordinal regression modelling  – https://psyarxiv.com/x8swp/

Resources on Aboriginal Australia:

• Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity: http://www.rnld.org (efforts to preserve Australia’s – and the world’s – languages)
• AIATSIS: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au (research and information about Aboriginal Australia)
• And for some real-life, and live, Sydney Aboriginal English – Koori Radio’s website: http://gadigal.org.au/koori-radio/

Australian linguistics blogs:

• http://munanga.blogspot.co.uk/ (on linguistic fieldwork in remote Aboriginal communities)
• http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/ (on endangered languages and cultures, with special focus on Australia)
• http://ozwords.org/ (for the dinkum oil on Australian Englishes)
• http://www.superlinguo.com/ (a fabulous Australian blog on linguistics)
• http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/ (for cool and creative Aussie language news)