Linguistics 

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Use these databases to look for articles on your topic:

• Linguistics + Language
  Covers the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, phonetics, speech, communication, sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, hearing and speech physiology, and related topics.

• Atlas of North American English
  ANAE is based on an intensive telephone survey project (Telsur) conducted during the years 1992-1999, to establish a portrait--essentially a snapshot of a particular time--of the phonology of the US and Canada. Invaluable as a foundation for further linguistic research, the data presented here--in text, tables, and 129 maps--has been gathered with the goals of illuminating the mechanisms of linguistic change.

• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
  Includes more than 2.4 million entries for dissertations and theses in all subject areas from around the world.

• America: History and Life
  Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.