Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language Book

1	Introduction : starting on the right foot	1
2	Psycholinguistics	17
3	First-language acquisition and development	30
4	Second-language acquisition	45
5	Structure and meaning	60
6	Style in spoken and written texts	75
7	Sociolinguistics	92
8	Language and gender	102
9	Accents and dialects of English	113
10	History of English	126
11	Audio- and video-recorded data	139
12	Experiments	144
13	Questionnaires, interviews and focus groups	152
14	Observation and case studies	168
15	Ethical considerations in research projects	173
16	Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically	179
17	Transcribing speech orthographically	185
18	Using computers to study texts	196
19	Statistics and your project	205
20	How to reference	221
21	Plagiarism and how to avoid it	237
22	Hints on writing good academic English	252