Linguistics

Correspondence, papers, and publications of the Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System (LINCS) pilot project conducted by the Center for Applied Linguistics. The collection includes extensive information on groups, organizations and schools that have major interests in language and language teaching. Also included is information on the Project's computer programming system.

See the External Documents section below to view an inventory to the collection.

Records of the Center For Applied Linguistics Negro American Dialect Project, including: teaching materials; interviews with Black children from Washington, DC (open reel recordings and transcripts); and demographic information on the participants in the study.

Open reel recordings related to the Detroit Dialect Study, which was conducted by Roger Shuy in the 1960s. The recordings in this collection have been digitized and redacted interviews are available online.

Research materials concerning a Syrian Arabic-English dictionary.