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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)Primary search engine in linguistics. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers in all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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JSTOR: LinguisticsJSTOR is an archival database of journals, books and other materials. Most of its journals are available from the first issue to three to five years ago via a moving wall.
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BartonPlusBartonPlus is a single window to multiple databases. It includes full text articles and other e-resources, plus books, theses, CDs, DVDs, and more. It searches the MIT Libraries' catalog, but it does not search LLBA (see above).
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MIT ThesesDownload MIT dissertations and theses from DSpace@MIT. If it is not in DSpace, use Barton (see above).
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Encylopedias and dictionaries
If you are looking to understand something more deeply, here are a number of online options for definitions and explanations.
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Atlas of North American English: PDFOpen Access PDF of the print version of this work.
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Atlas of North American English: SupplementSupplement: Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound Change (with audio files)
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Linguistic Data ManagementThe Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork
Edited by Nicholas Thieberger (2011)
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