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" Projects in linguistics : "
Alison Wray, Kate Trott, and Aileen Bloomer ; with Shirley Reay and Chris Butler.
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BL
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627528
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dltt
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Wray, Alison.
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Projects in linguistics : : a practical guide to researching language /\ Alison Wray, Kate Trott, and Aileen Bloomer ; with Shirley Reay and Chris Butler.
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London ;New York :: Arnold,, 1998.
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xv, 303 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0340700025 (hb)
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: 9780340700020 (hb)
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: 0340652101 (pb)
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: 9780340652107 (pb)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-291) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : starting on the right foot -- pt. 1. Areas of study and project ideas. Psycholinguistics -- First-language acquisition and development -- Conversation analysis -- Second-language acquisition -- Style in texts -- Sociolinguistics -- Accents and dialects of English -- Structure and meaning -- Historical linguistics -- Language and gender -- pt. 2. Techniques for collecting data. Tape-recording data -- Experiments -- Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Observation and case studies -- pt. 3. Tools for data analysis and project writing. Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically -- Transcribing speech orthographically -- Using computers to study texts -- The Data Protection Act -- How to reference -- Plagiarism and how to avoid it -- Statistics -- Using an abstracting journal -- Handy hints on writing good academic English.
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Projects in Linguistics has been designed to assist students undertaking a piece of independent research for the first time. It introduces the most commonly used tools and techniques, and offers practical advice on how to research a topic.
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Linguistics-- Research-- Methodology.
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P126.W73 1998
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Trott, Kate,1963-
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Bloomer, Aileen,1947-
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