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• Time, Tense, and the Verb: A Study in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, With Particular Attention to Spanish (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968), by William Emerson Bull (page images at HathiTrust)

• Applied Linguistics and the Preparation of Second Language Teachers: Toward a Rationale (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1983), ed. by James E. Alatis, H. H. Stern, and Peter Strevens (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1955), ed. by Ruth Hirsch (PDF at Georgetown)

• Research in Machine Translation (8th Georgetown Round Table on Linguistics and Language Studies; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1957), ed. by Léon Dostert (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistic Databases, ed. by John A. Nerbonne (PDF at Stanford)

• Computational Linguistics (free online volumes from 2000-) (partial serial archives)

• Ericsson Review (partial serial archives)
• Electrical Communication (partial serial archives)
• Bell Laboratories Record (partial serial archives)
• Bell Telephone Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• The Talking Heads Experiment: Origins of Words and Meanings (Computational models of language evolution #1; Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015), by Luc Steels
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org; 92 MB
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (presented by META-NET; c2013), ed. by Georg Rehm and Hans Uszkoreit (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Computational Linguistics: Models, Resources, Applications (c2004), by Igor A. Bolshakov and Alexander Gelbukh (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at gelbukh.com)
• Prolog and Natural Language Analysis (digital edition, 2002), by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber (PDF with commentary at mtome.com)
• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

• Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2017), by Tony McEnery and Helen Baker (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice (2005), ed. by Martin Wynne (HTML in the UK)

• Five Papers on WordNet (revised 1993), ed. by George A. Miller (PDF at Princeton)
• Making Dictionaries: A Guide to Lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter (2000 edition, with online updates), by David F. Coward and Charles E. Grimes (PDF with commentary at sil.org)

• Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (first edition, with minor corrections; 1998), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J. H. Jacobs (PDF and Postscript at dickgrune.com)

• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at sayican.com)

• Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines (1994), ed. by David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)
• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at sayican.com)

• Transmission Systems for Communications (2 volumes; New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1959), by Bell Telephone Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masters of Space: Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone (1917), by Walter Kellogg Towers (Gutenberg text)

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling (Gutenberg text)

• Study for Alameda County 911 (ca. 1974), by Scott W. Hovey
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • another edition, without appendix; PDF at ncjrs.gov

• Funding and Implementing Universal Access: Innovation and Experience from Uganda (c2005), by Uganda Communications Commission (PDF with commentary at Fountain Publishers)

• The History of the Telephone, by Herbert Newton Casson
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Ted and the Telephone (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Sara Ware Bassett, illust. by William F. Stecher (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone: or, The Picture That Saved a Fortune, by Victor Appleton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org

• Government Telephones: The Experience of Manitoba, Canada (c1916), by James Mavor (PDF at McMaster)

• REA Loans and Loan Guarantees for Rural Electric and Telephone Service (1983), by United States Rural Electrification Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bell Telephone: The Deposition of Alexander Graham Bell, in the Suit Brought by the United States to Annul the Bell Patents (Boston: American Bell Telephone Co., 1908), by Alexander Graham Bell, contrib. by Charles H. Swan
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Mobile Media Learning: Amazing Uses of Mobile Devices for Learning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Seann Dikkers, John Martin, and Bob Coulter (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Mobile Media Learning: Amazing Uses of Mobile Devices for Learning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Seann Dikkers, John Martin, and Bob Coulter (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• The Geek's Chihuahua: Living With Apple (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Ian Bogost (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Sound-Powered Telephone Talkers' Manual (ca. 1968), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sound-Powered Telephone Talkers' Manual (ca. 1968), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Pulling Together for Productivity: A Union-Management Initiative at US West, Inc. (OTA-ITE-583; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at fas.org
  • page images at unt.edu

• Bell Laboratories Record (partial serial archives)

• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF wih commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN

• Faces of Science (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny, illust. by Mikhail Zlatkovsky (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• University of California Publications in Linguistics (partial serial archives)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• Introduzione Agli Elementi di Glottologia (in Italian; Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1922), by Alfredo Trombetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language and War: Letter to a Friend Concerning Stalin's Article on Linguistics (Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.