User:SophiaMedley/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
 * Changes from above (Change from above)


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is very short and only features a total of 5 sources (two of which are from the provider). I think this is a great article to improve on for this assignment.


 * Current Sources
 * Ash, Sharon. "Social Class."" The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, 402-422. Malden, Mass: Blackwell. Labov, William. "Transmission and Diffusion." Language.Volume 83, Number 2, June 2007, 344-387. Linguistic Society of America. Wolfram,Walt and Schilling-Estes, Natalie. American English: Dialects and Variation. Blackwell Publishers. p.4. 1998.  http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~levmichael/pubs/l_michael_soc_lang_chng_web.pdf  http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~levmichael/pubs/l_michael_soc_lang_chng_web.pdf

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Fossilization (Fossilization (linguistics))


 * Article Evaluation
 * Like the above, this is a short article that could be improved by adding more sources and information. As of now, only one source is included for the article.


 * Current Sources
 * The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics, by Robert Lawrence Trask, p. 125

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Echo subject (Echo subject)


 * Article Evaluation
 * With only three sources and under a paragraph of text, this is another great article to expand on during the assignment.


 * Current Sources
 * Terry Crowley (2002). Serial Verbs in Oceanic: A Descriptive Typology. Oxford University Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780198241355 . doi:10.2307/3623399 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145228/1/PL-C79.pdf