Description: Learn to sign with Koko

URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/koko/game.html

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Description: Ladle Rat Rotten Hunt

URL: http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/index.html

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Description: Links to sites about language

URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/word.html

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Description: Production of vowel sounds

URL: http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/vocal_vowels/vocal_vowels.html

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Description: Description of software which recognizes speech

URL: http://www.sun.com/research/speech/index.html

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Description: A word a day - different English word every day featured

URL:http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

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Description: TIPS - An artificial intelligence program that talks to you

URL: http://rick.dgbt.doc.ca/cgi-bin/tips/wwwtips

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Description: Can learn American Sign Language here

URL:http://library.thinkquest.org/10202/

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Description: Can take a tutorial to learn another language

URL:http://www.ild.com

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Description: The brain and language- Looks at " language" in bees, apes, and language aphasias…all with very good links for more info.

URL: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/lang.html

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Description: Language and Culture

URL:http://daphne.palomar.edu/language/Default.htm

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