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Language Documentation
Peter Austin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Language Documentation Introduction Language documentation, also known as documentary linguistics, is the subfield of linguistics that deals w...
Language, Acquisition of
Eve V. Clark
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Acquisition of Language Introduction First language acquisition—the study of how children acquire their first language(s)––is the branch of psy...
Language, Biology of
Cedric Boeckx
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Biology of Language Introduction Although they both focus on issues that have deep roots in human thought, linguistics and biology are relative...
Languages of Africa
Tucker Childs
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Languages of Africa Introduction The study of African languages has a history dating back to the 17th century when Europeans first began explo...
Languages of the Americas, Indigenous
Marianne Mithun
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Indigenous Languages of the Americas Introduction The languages indigenous to North, Middle, and South America are both numerous and diverse. B...
Languages of the World
William R. Leben
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Languages of the World Introduction Scholarly work on the languages of the world is aimed in three main directions: genetic classification, typ...
Languages, Afroasiatic
Bonny Sands
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Afroasiatic Languages Introduction Afroasiatic languages are found across North Africa and throughout much of East Africa and the Middle East. ...
Languages, Athabaskan
Sharon Hargus
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Athabaskan Languages Introduction The Athabaskan family of languages is or was spoken in primarily three regions: (1) in the interior of Alaska...
Languages, Australian
Claire Bowern
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Australian Languages Introduction At the time of the first European settlement of Australia in 1788, there were approximately 250 distinct lang...
Languages, Caucasian
Marina Chumakina
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Caucasian Languages Introduction Medieval Arab geographers called the Caucasus “a mountain of tongues.” Many diverse languages are spoken in th...
Languages, Endangered
Chris Rogers, Lyle Campbell
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Endangered Languages Introduction Endangered languages are one of the highest priorities in linguistics in the early 21st century and one of th...
Languages, Heritage
Maria Polinsky
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Heritage Languages Introduction Heritage languages are spoken by early bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, whose home language (L1) is seve...
Languages, Iroquoian
Karin Michelson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Iroquoian Languages Introduction The Iroquoian languages include Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora (the languages spoken by t...
Languages, Kiowa-Tanoan
Daniel Harbour
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Kiowa-Tanoan Languages Introduction The Kiowa-Tanoan family consists of Kiowa and the Tanoan languages Tewa, Tiwa, and Towa (Jemez), many of wh...
Languages, Mayan
Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Mayan Languages Introduction The Mayan family of languages consists of about thirty extant languages plus at least two (Chicomuceltec and Ch’o...
Languages, Mesoamerican
Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Mesoamerican Languages Introduction Mesoamerica as a linguistic area extends from central Mexico south and east through Guatemala and Belize a...
Languages, Muskogean
Jack Martin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Muskogean Languages Introduction The Muskogean languages are a family of languages native to the southeastern United States. The members of th...
Languages, Non-Pama-Nyungan
Brett Baker
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages Introduction The Non-Pama-Nyungan languages are those indigenous Australian languages whose traditional territory w...
Languages, Salish
Donna B. Gerdts
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Salish Languages Introduction The Salish language family consists of twenty-three languages spoken in southwestern Canada and the northwestern...
Languages, Zapotecan
Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Zapotecan Languages Introduction Known for their numerous suprasegmental contrasts and VSO argument order, Zapotecan languages are indigenous t...
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