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WRITING

Style Sheets (with examples)

LSA: NOTE: Authors names should be in small capitals. I can't get this to show up on the web.

Eddington, David.  2001. Surface analogy and spelling rules in English vowel alternations.  Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20.85-105.

MLA:

Eddington, David.  "Surface Analogy and Spelling Rules in English Vowel Alternations."  Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20 (2001):  85-105.

APA:

Eddington, D.  (2001).  Surface analogy and spelling rules in English vowel alternations.  Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 20, 85-105.

Citing Studies

• Bowie (1999) found that . . .

• In one study (Bowie 1999) a significant difference was found . . .

• This was observed in several studies (Bowie 1999; MacKay 2004; Zukowski 1991).

Organizing Research Paper

1. Introduce topic/problem to be addressed

2. Review literature

3. The experiment

   1. Subjects

   2. Stimuli

   3. Design

   4. Procedure

   5. Results

   6. Discussion

   7. Conclusions

If it is corpus-based then #3 is:

1. Corpus selection

2. Design

3. Procedure

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. Conclusions

Note Cards

Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Style Guide (modified from the LSA's online guide)

Each entry should contain the following elements in the order and punctuation given: (first) author's surname, given name(s) or initial(s); given name and surname of other authors. year of publication. Full title and subtitle of the work. For a journal article: Full name of the journal and volume number (roman type).inclusive page numbers for the entire article. For an article in a book: title of the book, ed. by [ full name(s) of editor(s)], inclusive page numbers. For books and monographs, the edition, volume or part number (if applicable) and series title (if any). Place of publication: Publisher.

NOTE: Authors names should be in small capitals. I can't get this to show up on the web.

Book editor

Dorian, Nancy C. (ed.) 1989. Investigating obsolescence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal

Hale, Kenneth, and Josie White Eagle. 1980. A preliminary metrical account of Winnebago accent. International Journal of American Linguistics 46.117-32.

Unpublished manuscript

Miner, Kenneth. 1990. Winnebago accent: the rest of the data. Lawrence: University of Kansas, ms.

Dissertation

Poser, William. 1984. The phonetics and phonology of tone and intonation in Japanese. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation.

Presented paper

Prince, Ellen. 1991. Relative clauses, resumptive pronouns, and kind-sentences. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago.

Book

Rice, Keren. 1989. A grammar of Slave. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Book Chapter

Yip, Moira. 1991. Coronals, consonant clusters, and the coda condition. The special status of coronals: internal and external evidence, ed. by Carole Paradis and Jean-Francois Prunet, 61-78. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.