Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language

This is an invaluable companion for students undertaking a piece of independent research for the first time. It introduces the most commonly used tools and techniques of research and offers practical advice on how to choose a research topic, how to collect data, how to analyze it, and how to write up the results. The authors incorporate over 250 project ideas and cover plagiarism, referencing, the use of corpora, phonetic and orthographic transcription, and writing good English.

Alison Wray, Assistant Director, Wales Applied Language Research Unit, University of Wales, Swansea. Aileen Bloomer, Head of Academic Discipline in Linguistics and Modern Languages, both at University College of Ripon and York St John.