TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wray,Alison
AU  - Trott,Kate
AU  - Bloomer,Aileen
TI  - Projects in linguistics : a practical guide to researching language
SN  - 0340700025 (hb)
U1  - 410 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Arnold
KW  - Linguistics
N1  - Included Index; 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
N2  - 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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UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/98014557-t.html
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