Linguistics Topics for
Searches
For your assignment, locate a minimum of twenty article titles (papers from journals;
papers in edited collections; unpublished manuscripts) that
are directly relevant to a topic of your choice. Titles may not include
book-length works, inaccessible manuscripts, or papers from conferences. Choose
any topic that interests you as long as it has my explicit approval, or choose a topic from the list below.
Many of the listed topics are too broad and will have to be narrowed as your search proceeds.
Type a bibliography of these titles in APA style. I will grade the bibliography on the relevance of the articles to
your topic (50%) and on the details to APA style (50%). Include your
topic in the title of your bibliography.
If you do not understand your topic, use one of the sources for
background information or one of the dictionaries to help you to understand
it (see Bibliography of Reference Resources for
Linguistics/SLA). Do not attempt to do a bibliographic search if you do not understand the
topic!
- Typological universals in acquisition
- Effect of negative data in L1 acquisition
- Effect of negative data in L2 acquisition
- Effect of explicit data in L2 acquisition
- Critical period (sensitive period) in L1 acquisition
- Syntactic transfer in L2 acquisition (papers after 1988)
- Phonological transfer in L2 acquisition (papers after 1988)
- Grammaticality judgments by native speakers
- Development of negation in L1 acquisition
- Development of negation in L2 acquisition
- Null subjects in L1 acquisition
- Null subjects in L2 acquisition
- Development of anaphoric binding in L1 acquisition
- Development of anaphoric binding in L2 acquisition
- Subjacency effects in L2 acquisition
- Functional projections in L2 acquisition (papers after 1989)
- Functional projections in L1 acquisition (papers after 1989)
- Inflectional loss in diachronic change
- Typology of pronouns
- Middle voice
- Language revitalization
- Language death
- Noun incorporation
- English stress
- Underspecification in phonology
- Optimality in phonology
- Transitivity
- Causative morphology
- Diminutive morphology
- Morphological metathesis
- Morphological tone
- Subtractive morphology (disfixation)
- Possessor raising
- Pronominal argument languages
- Construction grammar
- Native American language lexicography
- Unaccusative hypothesis
- Distant genetic relationships among languages
- Amerind hypothesis
- Headless relative clauses
- Vowel lowering or retraction
- Practical orthographies for unwritten languages
- Indo-European laryngeal theory
- Na-Dene hypothesis
- Algic
- Nostratic
- Proto-world
- Machine-aided translation
- Development of the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Glottochronology
- Evidential morphology
- Presentation of Native American language literature
- New look of Proto-Indo-European
- Mass comparison of languages
- Infixation
- Avoidance of labials
- Nasalless languages
- Vowel harmony
- Phonetics of pharyngeals
- Great English vowel shift
- Exceptions to Grimm's Law
- Prosodic morphology