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LING 336: When Languages Collide: Mechanisms of Language Emergence and Change

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This guide provides some useful starting points for your research in LING 336. Use the tabs to start exploring the variety of tools and resources available to you. The Cultural Contact Assignment tab has resources for your assignment based on your visit to the Davis Museum. If you would like help finding, evaluating, or citing sources, or would like to chat about any aspect of your research, please get in touch!

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Karen Storz, Linguistics Librarian

Brooke Henderson, Art Librarian

Search Tips

Use AND to combine multiple concepts in your search. This will narrow your results.

bilingualism AND identity

Use OR to find different ways your topic could be expressed. This will expand your results.

(bilingualism OR multilingualism) AND identity

Use an asterisk * to find variant endings, or as a wild card. This will expand your results

(bilingual* OR multilingual*AND wom*AND identity

Use quotation marks " " to search words as a phrase. This will narrow your results.

"code switching" AND bilingual*

To find research on African American English, try a variety of terms.

("african american english" OR "african american language" OR "african american vernacular english" OR aave OR "black english")

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