Language & Lingustics Compass

Posted on May 6th, 2009 in Databases, Journals, Uncategorized by Melody Royster

For many years, various social sciences and sciences have “Annual Yearbooks:” including broad overview articles, written by current authoritative researchers. These have been extremely helpful for teaching new areas of study, learning new areas of study, and finding reference sources.

Now, Wiley- has published an online journal, Compass, that provides broad, overarching articles on issues in Linguistics. Often articles in disciplines like Psychology or LInguistics report about very narrow issues or experiments. Compass make it possible to place the report into a larger questions and theory.

Here are some wonderful new papers in compass.

Sands, B.. (2009) Africa’s Linguistic Diversity. Language & Linguistics Compass, 3(2), 559–580. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00124.x

Simpson, A. P. (2009). Phonetic differences between male and female speech, 3(2), 621-640. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00125.x

Cohen, A. (2009). Probability in Semantics. Language & Linguistics Compass, 3(1),  265-281. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00097.x

Dallas, A. & Kaan, E. (2008) Second Language Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies by Late Learners. Language & Linguistics Compass, 2(3), 372-388. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00056.x 

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