LibGuides: Linguistics & Multilingual Studies: eResources

Databases

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
LLBA contains abstracts of articles covering all aspects of the study of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
This resource provides information for over 7000 of the world’s known living languages. It covers mainly language statistics as well as maps and bibliographic references. Our subscription includes Country Digests and Premium Maps.

Country Digests can be downloaded as PDF files. You will be led through a process that includes adding to cart and checkout. You do not have to pay. Click here to see more info about Country Digests

- Premium Maps is an interactive feature that allow you to see where a language is spoken. You can see these from the Map tab on any language page. Do not be confused with the high-resolution, watermark-free map that needs to be purchased separately. Click here to see more info about Premium Maps

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Anthropology
A streaming video collection for the visual study of human behaviour and culture. It includes footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field. Some videos also include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
This database is compiled by the Modern Language Association. It is an index to scholarly books and articles in literature, modern languages, linguistics and folklore from a few thousand journals and series published all over the world. It also covers monographs, proceedings, bibliographies and electronic materials.
Oxford Reference
This database has a wide range of English language dictionaries and references for linguistic research. It also includes bilingual dictionaries: English-French, English-German, English-Spanish and English-Italian.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES provides full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals, published mainly by the American Psychological Association (APA). More info at http://proquest.libguides.com/psycarticles/sample

JSTOR -- Linguistics
This database provides backfiles of core scholarly journals in various disciplines and also has ebooks. There is usually a gap of 2 to 5 years between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR. This gap is called ‘moving wall’ in JSTOR. To access linguistics resources, Browse by Subject > Social Sciences > Linguistics or go to https://www.jstor.org.remotexs.ntu.edu.sg/subject/linguistics
Oxford Scholarship Online -- Linguistics
Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to an online library of over 14,000 outstanding academic books from Oxford University Press. Subjects include linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, sociology and others.
Oxford Handbooks Online -- Linguistics
Oxford Handbooks Online offers a series of handbooks in various subjects including linguistics. Each Handbook offers introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research.
Cambridge Core: Language and Linguistics
This platform offers access to eBooks published by Cambridge University Press, covering subjects from various disciplines including linguistics.
Oxford Bibliographies -- Linguistics
This platform is a handy reference tool for succinct explanations on various linguistics terms and concepts.Resources include book chapters, books, journal articles and Websites. Concise entries on general topics such as "Languages of the World" quickly get you up to speed on topics outside of your area of expertise.
The largest and most important language families are covered in depth allowing researchers interested in particular language families to gain access to specialized scholarship. Each entry is reviewed annually and updated.

Websites

The Linguist List
This website provides information on language and language analysis,
SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms
The SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms provides information in the form of glossaries and bibliographies designed to support fieldwork and linguistic research.

Tools for Linguists

Field Linguist's Toolbox
Toolbox is an analysis tool for maintaining lexical data, parsing and interlinearizing text and it is developed by SIL International.
ELAN
ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. It is developed by The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Materials (User registration is required)
This site contains materials for the field elicitation of semantics and and the field collection of verbal behaviour. It is compiled by the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Online videos

Watch this short video about the amazing linguistic abilities of babies. This Ted talk is delivered by Patricia Kuhl, Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and co-director of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. Prof Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world. (Source: TEDxRainier, October 2010)

How to find journal articles

Journals consists of articles written by scholars and experts in various disciplines and are targeted at an academic audience. Most are published by professional or academic organizations.

Search
Search the library catalogue for linguistics journals by selecting 'ejournals' and type in the journal title or keyword eg. 'linguistics'.
Alternatively, you may also browse the ejournal list by discipline.

Many ejournals with articles in full text can also be found databases. If you do not have a specific journal in mind and would like to search on a specific subject or topic, use databases instead.

Occasionally, a journal may be available in print format only. You can search print journal titles in the library catalogue by doing a "Search all".

Document Delivery
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Journals

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, SEMANTICS & TYPOLOGY

PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

SOCIOLINGUISTICS

PSYCHO-/NEUROLINGUISTICS

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, BILINGUALISM, APPLIED LINGUISTICS

OTHERS

Linguistics & Multilingual Studies: eResources

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