Linguistics Literature Review

1. Most Effective Linguistics Literature Review Topics Check out this list of topics for literature reviews for linguistics and you will see how effective your review can be. 1. Language and the internet 2. Age graded innovations: when does a particular innovation get discarded? 3. Popular perceptions of African American Vernacular English 4. Covert vs Overt prestige for various dialects 5. Dialect vs language: where do we draw the line? 6. Bilingualism and its effects on the brain 7. The structure of pidgins 8. Particular sound changes and people’s perceptions of them 9. Attitudes towards linguistic change 10. Prescriptivism: why and how it developed 11. Effective methods for ESL teaching 12. How foreign accents influence perception of a person 13. The debate over “grammatical”: what counts and what doesn’t? 14. Effects of isolation on language change 15. The critical period: does it exist and when is it? 16. The perception of women’s use of speech 17. The linguistics of swearing and self-censoring 18. Psycholinguistics vs sociolinguistics: attitudes and theories 19. The language instinct: fact or myth? 20. The loss of first language 21. Effects of injury on language loss 22. The sociolinguistic impact of speech disorders 23. A review of a particular little-known language and its grammar 24. Code-switching – when and where 25. The Scandinavian impact on Old English 26. The unique place of Slavic among Indo-European languages 27. The viability of “proto-World” 28. Linguistic universals and what we can learn from them 29. First language learning processes 30. Attitudes towards minority languages