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Dialectology:

The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes

Online language survey collects English dialect features from site visitors and publishes results on dialect maps.

http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/survey/

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

Dialect Topography

Interactive results of a sociolinguistic postal survey of dialect variants in eastern Canada and northeastern United States.

http://dialect.topography.chass.utoronto.ca/

Dialectology

Dialectology section has general information as well as papers, links, and information on Norwegian, Dutch and German dialects.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~heeringa/dialectology/

Dialectology

Estuary English resource page includes many links to research and articles about a variety of English spoken in the areas around the river Thames and its estuary.

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/home.htm

Good Practice Guide to Dialectology

Introduction to Dialectology by Dr. David Britain including a bibliography and related links.

http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/964

Harvard Survey of North American Dialects

Results of an online survey of regional pronunciations of American English

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/index.html

International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics

Official site promotes dialectology and geolinguistics and features membership and publication information for the International Journal of Dialectology and Geolinguistics.

http://www.uni-bamberg.de/romling1/sidg/

Linguistic Atlas Projects

Comprehensive information on linguistic dialect atlas projects across the U.S. including access to some data.

http://us.english.uga.edu/

Linguistic Innovators: The English of Adolescents in London

Quantitative sociolinguistic research among young Londoners studies changes in mainstream speech and how linguistic features spread. Includes description of project and research articles.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/projects/linguistics/innovators/index.htm

New Zealand English

Resources on social dialect studies in New Zealand.

http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm/NZEnglish/home.html

Sociolinguistics

Informational page on sociolinguistics with a very large section on dialects.

http://www.unc.edu/~gerfen/Ling30Sp2002/sociolinguistics.html

University of Copenhagen Dialectology

Overview of research and resources on Danish dialectology.

http://english.dialektforskning.ku.dk/