duPont Library: Linguistics 340: Introduction to Linguistics: Getting Started

Welcome

This guide is intended to direct you to fundamental resources to use when performing research in Linguistics 340: Introduction to Linguistics. The resources here are by no means comprehensive, but are intended to help you achieve a sound start to your work.

Please feel free to contact me if you have suggestions for additions or other ways to improve this guide.

IPA Vowel Chart

Image from InternationalPhoneticAlphabet.org

Credo Reference Search Box

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000,000 reference entries on topics from all the major
academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for research. Full text articles plus images, audio files, and videos. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Includes more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from 100 major publishers, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more.

Online Reference Collections

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Contains 187 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas.
We have the Premium Collection and the Western Civilization Collection.

Reference books in the duPont Library

Listed below are some examples of what you will find in the reference collection in the library as well as in some of the online reference collections mentioned above.

The Linguistics Encyclopedia by Kirsten Malmkjaer
Call Number: Reference Collection P 29 .L52 2002
ISBN: 0415222095
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P. H. Matthews
Call Number: Oxford Reference Online
ISBN: 9780199202720

Linguistics Fun

Language Log
A linguistics blog started by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum in 2003. The multitude of posts contemplate linguistics puzzles and ideas related to everyday life, current events, and the various interests of the many contributors.

Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Call Number: P120.I6 M28 2019
ISBN: 9780735210936
Publication Date: 2019-07-23
The internet isn't the first technology to alter how we communicate, but it is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. The programmers behind the apps and platforms we use decide how our conversations are structured, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive niche online communities spread slang and jargon exponentially faster than in the days when new dialects were constrained by physical space. What's more, social media provides a fascinating laboratory for watching language evolve in real time.

All Things Linguistic
This is the blog of Gretchen McCulloch, internet linguist. You can also find links here to Gretchen's podcast with fellow linguist Lauren Gawne, Lingthusiasm.

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