User:Jillchaffee/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Tongue-Twister


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article provides many well-known tongue twisters, but doesn't go into depth about the linguistics behind the difficulty of tongue twisters. The author also briefly mentions tongue-twisters across languages, but the introduction of this information should either be elaborated on or not included at all. Overview of article could provide a little more insight into what is covered throughout the text. Links work when clicked, a few more phrases could use links. Sources are cites throughout the paper, but are still a little sparse.


 * Sources
 * -Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. and Klatt, D. “The Limited Use of Distinctive Features and Markedness in Speech Production: Evidence from Speech Error Data.” Journal of Verbal Learning and  Verbal Behavior, vol. 18, no.1, 1979, pp. 41-55,

-Tongue Twisters And A Few Other Examples Of Linguistic Folklore George W. Boswell

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Gender Role in Language


 * Article Evaluation
 * The organization of the article may not be the most effective way of communicating information on this topic. It is organized by geographic location, which is an important perspective of this subject but should not be the main organization point. The article also uses lengthy quotations which is frowned upon in the Wiki community. Wikipedia suggests that the article be edited to form a more neutral tone. Links work, but are not always relevant to the topic of the article. Very confusing to see the main point.


 * Sources
 * -Baquee, Ahamika: Influence of gender roles in language choice: a study on male and female students of private universities in Dhaka city.
 * -Early development among dual language learners: The roles of language use at home, maternal immigration, country of origin, and socio-demographic variables

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Sign language in the brain


 * Article Evaluation
 * After briefly reading over the article, it is clear that this article is more developed than the previous two. There is a lot of relevant and interesting information. Wikipedia suggests that the article may be "unbalanced towards certain viewpoints". This may be due to the fact that the article pulls very heavily from certain sources. It is very important to include articles that recognize and inform about disabilities, especially those overlooked like language disabilities. One improvement could be to focus more on the processing of sign language in the brain rather than the effect of sign language on neuroanatomy.


 * Sources

- Sign Language and the Brain: A Review. Ruth Campbell, Mairéad MacSweeney, Dafydd Waters

-Bellugi U, Klima ES, Poizner H. Sign language and the brain. Research Publications - Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. 1988 ;66:39-56.

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