This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

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What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work and offering a critical view of the work.

What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

Beware Wikipedia! Don't cite it in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions).

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Don't believe everything you read.

'New Titles Received' Lists   

Linguistics : an introduction - William B. McGregor

ISBN: 1847063667

Firmly based around taught courses & student needs, the text aids students in their initial & subsequent study of language. With key terms, further reading, questions at the end of each chapter, exercises & key paragraphs in stand-out boxes, this firmly pedagogic text takes difficult concepts & explains them in an easy to understand way.

English Phonetics & Phonology : a Practical Course - Peter Roach

ISBN: 052171740X

This new edition covers recent developments in the teaching of phonology, with updated references, full coverage of intonation & a chapter on different varieties of English. Audio CDs include recorded exercises for every chapter which are particularly helpful for non-native speakers.

Language in cognition : uncovering mental structures and the rules behind them - Cedric Boeckx

ISBN: 1405158824

“If Linguistics is the queen of the cognitive sciences, then Cedric Boeckx is her official court biographer. In one short book, he clearly outlines how the developments in linguistics have upended earlier empiricist conceptions of mind and spurred exciting investigations of human evolution.” –Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland

Oxford handbook of linguistic typology - Jae Jung Song (ed)

ISBN: 0199281254

Provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions & challenges of current research and shows how these reflect & inform work on the development of linguistic theory. It describes what typologists have revealed about language in general and discovered (& continue to discover) about the richly various ways in which meaning & expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Dying words: Endangered languages and what they have to tell us - Nicholas Evans

ISBN: 0631233067

A fascinating and colourful view of what we are losing as languages die, by a linguist who understands the significance of our loss more deeply than most."–Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey

 

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