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Linguistics Databases

Linguistics Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to abstracts of articles in all the key journals in the field, helping users conduct quick, accurate and comprehensive research, write papers, prepare teaching materials, compile bibliographies and checking references, and keep up-to-date with emerging trends and important developments in the field. Each abstract is classified according to area.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
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A valuable source for the latest in linguistics and its various sub-disciplines. Non-evaluative abstracts of articles from hundreds of serials published around the world, complemented with coverage of books, occasional papers, monographs, & more.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Contains citations and abstracts from thousands of journals, as well as books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers from 1952 to present. Includes the complete Social Services Abstracts.

Key Linguistics Journals

Applied Linguistics
Publishes peer reviewed articles that explore the relationship between theory and practice, but also as the study of language and language-related problems in specific situations in which people use and learn languages.
Brain and Language
Publishes peer reviewed articles that focus on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying human language.
Cognition
Publishes peer reviewed theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind.
Cognitive Psychology
Publishes peer reviewed articles related to the study of attention, memory, language processing, perception, problem solving, and thinking.
International Journal of American Linguistics
Publishes peer reviewed articles related to the study of all the languages native to North, Central, and South America.

Journal of Child Language
Publishes peer reviewed articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Publishes peer reviewed articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition
Publishes peer reviewed experimental studies on basic processes of cognition, learning, memory, imagery, concept formation, problem solving, decision making, thinking, reading, and language processing.
Journal of Linguistics
Publishes peer reviewed articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics.
Journal of Memory and Language
Publishes peer reviewed articles that contribute to the formulation of scientific issues and theories in the areas of memory, language comprehension and production, and cognitive processes.
Journal of Phonetics
Publishes peer reviewed papers of an experimental or theoretical nature that deal with phonetic aspects of language and linguistic communication processes.
Journal of Semantics
Publishes peer reviewed articles on all areas in the study of meaning, with a focus on formal and experimental methods.
Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research
Publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles on the normal and disordered processes in speech, language, hearing, and related areas such as cognition, oral-motor function, and swallowing.

Language
Publishes peer reviewed articles on all aspects of linguistics, focusing on the area of theoretical linguistics.
Language & Cognition
Publishes peer reviewed peer-reviewed research of a theoretical and/or empirical/experimental nature, focusing on the interface between language and cognition.
Language Learning
Publishes peer reviewed articles research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience, ethnography, sociolinguistics, sociology, and anthropology.

Linguistic Inquiry
Publishes peer reviewed articles on a wide range of linguistics related topics.
Linguistics
Publishes peer reviewed articles on a wide range of Linguistics areas.
Linguistics & Education
Publishes peer reviewed articles related to the intersections of linguistics and education
Linguistics & Philosophy
Publishes peer reviewed articles that focus on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the semantics, philosophy of language, pragmatics, and related disciplines.

Natural Language Semantics
Publishes peer reviewed articles focused on semantics and its interfaces in grammar, especially syntax.
Phonology
Publishes peer reviewed articles on all aspects of phonology.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
Multidisciplinary; publishes peer reviewed articles that span the biological, physical, and social sciences.

Research in the Teaching of English
Publishes peer reviewed original research and scholarly essays on the relationships between language teaching and learning at all levels, preschool through adult.
Second Language Research
Publishes peer reviewed theory-driven research concerned with second language acquisition and second language performance.
Semantics & Pragmatics
A peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality, original, self-contained research articles on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Publishes peer reviewed articles that discuss the acquisition or use of non-native and heritage languages.

TESOL Quarterly
Publishes peer reviewed articles on topics of signiﬁcance to individuals concerned with English language teaching and learning and standard English as a second dialect.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Brings together peer reviewed research in psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, computer science and neuroscience.