Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers aspects of the study of language sciences including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. LLBA provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
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Use the Advanced Search page to make your search more precise. You can limit by Date, Peer Reviewed Journal articles, and Date Ranges. For better navigation, please use the Modify search link, instead of the browser back button, to return to the Advanced Search page. From a Citation/Abstract view of an article, click on Back To Results to return to the list of items your search brought up.
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