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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
 * The Philadelphia study
 * Article Evaluation
 * Although this is a rather short article, there is only three sources cited. As well as only one visual aid included. But it was well written and had no grammatical errors.
 * Sources:Ash, Sharon. "Social Class."" The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, 402-422. Malden, Mass: Blackwell.:Labov, William. Principles of Linguistic Change, vol iii: Social Factors. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell. 2001.:Labov, William. 1984 “Field methods of the Project on Linguistic Change and Variation.” Language in Use. 43-70. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1984.

Option 2
Ross, Malcolm D. (2006). "Metatypy". In K. Brown (ed.). Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (2nd ed.). Oxford: Elsevier.
 * Article title:Analogical change
 * Article Evaluation:Very well written and very cited. Could use visual aids.
 * Sources :Louden M.L. (2003). 'Review Article: Child Language Acquisition and Language Change.' Diachronica 20, no. 1: 167-83. Meisel, Jürgen M. (2011). First and second language acquisition: Parallels and differences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 124.  Barber, C. (2009) The English language A Historical Introduction second edition, p47  Hock, Hans Henrich. (2003). 'Analogical Change', in Joseph, Brian D. and Richard D. Janda (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 441-460.  Dresher, B. Elan. (2000). 'Analogical leveling of vowel length in West Germanic', in Lahiri, Aditi (ed.), Analogy, Levelling, Markedness : Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, Inc. p.50.
 * Article title:Metatypy
 * Article Evaluation:Could use source citing work on connecting citations to information. Visual aids could also be added. Found some formatting inconsistencies.
 * Sources
 * Ross, Malcolm D.; John Natu Paol (1978). A Waskia grammar sketch and vocabulary. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.

Ross, Malcolm D. (2003). "Diagnosing prehistoric language contact". In Raymond Hickey (ed.). Motivations for language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 174–198

Ross, Malcolm D. (2002). "Constructions: Continuity and contact"

Ross, Malcolm D. (2001). "Contact-induced change in Oceanic languages in North-West Melanesia". In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; R. M. W. Dixon (eds.). Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 134–166.

Ross, Malcolm D. (1999). "Exploring metatypy: How does contact-induced typological change come about?" (Keynote talk, Australian Linguistic Society's annual meeting, Perth). Retrieved 2007-10-24

Ross, Malcolm D. (1997). "Social networks and kinds of speech-community event". In R. Blench; Matthew Spriggs (eds.). Archaeology and language 1: Theoretical and methodological orientations. London: Routledge. pp. 209–261.

Ross, Malcolm D. (1996). "Contact-induced change and the comparative method: Cases from Papua New Guinea". In Mark Durie; Malcolm D. Ross (eds.). The comparative method reviewed: Regularity and irregularity in language change. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 180–217

Haspelmath, Martin (2004). "How hopeless is genealogical linguistics, and how advanced is areal linguistics?" (PDF). Studies in Language. 28 (1): 209–223. doi:10.1075/sl.28.1.10has. ISSN 0378-4177. OCLC 3404175. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-05-19. Retrieved 2008-10-23

Option 4

 * Article title:Pre-Indo-European languages
 * Article Evaluation:Already has editor header for certain issues. More citations needed to confirm information and more information needs to be connected to cited sources. Is well writtin with no grammatical issues and has consistant formatting.
 * Sources:David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Oxford, 2010) Haarmann, Harald. Pre-Indo-European Writing in Old Europe as a Challenge to the Indo-European Intruders Indogermanische Forschungen; Strassburg Vol. 96, (Jan 1, 1991): 1  Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs (eds.) Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts, (2012, Routledge)  Peter R. Kitson, "Reconstruction, typology and the original home of the Indo-Europeans", in (ed.) Jacek Fisiak, Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1997, p. 191

Option 5
A.V. (24 July 2017). "Papua New Guinea's incredible linguistic diversity". The Economist. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
 * Article title:Rosetta Project
 * Article Evaluation:Well cited and well written. Maybe some review on citation formatt is need. More visuals are needed as well.
 * Sources

The Rosetta Project, Presented by Maria Zijlstra on Lingua Franca, 24 March 2012, ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dr. Laura Welcher – The Rosetta Project & The Language Commons, March 7th, 2011, by Austin Brown, Blog of the Long Now

"Interactive Disk". Rosettaproject.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018.

Macro to micro etching, November 3rd, 2008, by Alexander Rose, The Long Now Foundation's Blog

"Rosetta Wearable Disk". The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. Retrieved 12 June 2018

Blakemore, Erin. "This Necklace Contains All of the World's Languages". Smithsonian.com (Smart News). Smithsonian. Retrieved 12 June 2018.