We have many useful books on linguistics, phonetics and cultures. Use the library catalog to find useful resources.
Some suggested Search Terms to use when searching Elmhurst Library Catalog:
These databases have information on countries of origin for language group speakers, culture of language speakers, demographic information and some basic phonetics-related information.
For the assignment, you will be looking for articles that add to the information you are gathering about language speakers and communities. These databases are places to look.
Provides full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. Provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,500 journals are also included.
Covers a variety of areas pertaining to communication and mass media. The product of a merging of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, CMMC contains the full text of over 500 titles in addition to citations to several other types of documents and searchable cited references.
Provides abstracts from over 12,500 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from 8,500 titles, including more than 7,300 that are peer-reviewed. Almost every topic of study is covered. The database is updated daily, and includes searchable cited references from more than 1,400 journals.