Linguistics

More information about the MA Qualifying Exam can be found in the Guidelines.

Bonvillain, N. (2000). Language, culture, and communication. Third Edition. New York: Prentice Hall.

Cook, V.J. (1991). The poverty-of-stimulus argument and multicompetence. Second Language Research 7, 2, 103-117.

Damasio, A.R. & Damasio, H. (1992, September). Brain and language. Scientific American, 89-95.

DeVilliers, J.G. & DeVilliers, P.A. (1985). The acquisition of English. In D. Slobin (Ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, volume 1: The data (pp. 27- 139). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Fromkin, V., Krashen, S., Curtiss, S., Rigler, D., & Rigler, M. (1984). The development of language in Genie: A case of language acquisition beyond the "critical period." Brain and Language , 1, 81-107.

Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Hunt, E. & Agnoli, F. (1991). The Whorfian hypothesis: A cognitive psychology perspective. Psychological Review, 98, 377-89.

Kachru, B.B. (1990). World Englishes and applied linguistics. World Englishes, 9, 3-20.

Kochman, T. (1990). Force fields in black and white communication. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), Cultural communication and intercultural contact (pp.193-217). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Leap, W. L. (1993). American Indian English and its implications for bilingual education. In L.M. Cleary & M.D. Linn (Eds.), Linguistics for language teachers (pp. 207-19). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Matthews, P.H. (1993). Grammatical theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky . Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

O'Grady, W., Dobrovolsky, M., & Aronoff, M. (2001). Contemporary Linguistics, Fourth Edition . Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Romaine, S. (1989). Bilingualism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Scollon, R. & Wong-Scollon, S. (1990). Athabascan-English interethnic communication. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), Cultural communication and intercultural contact (pp.259- 286). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Slobin, D. (1996). From “thought and language” to “thinking for speaking.” In J. Gumperz and S.C. Levinson (Eds.), Rethinking linguistic relativity (pp. 70-96). Cambridge: Cambridge UP

Tannen, D., ed. (1993). Gender and conversational interaction. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Whorf, B.L. (1960:1993). The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language. In L.M. Cleary & M.D. Linn (Eds.), Linguistics for language teachers (pp. 79-99). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Wolfram, W. & Schilling-Estes, N.(1998). American English:Dialects and Variation. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Wolkomir, R. (1998) American Sign Language: “It’s Not Mouth Stuff—It’s Brain Stuff.” In D. Oaks (Ed.), Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications (pp. 311-20). Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace & Company.

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Statement of
"Organic Knowledge"
for Linguistics

The student with "organic knowledge" of the reading list will be able to

1. define basic terms and identify or provide examples of them.

2. demonstrate familiarity with methods of language analysis and apply these to natural language data. Using these methods, students should be able to compare data from different languages and draw conclusions about their respective structural characteristics.

3. discuss and evaluate the major theories and trends in the field. The student should be able to cite both theoretical and experimental studies to support and/or refute these theories.