Houff Library

CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language 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 is published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.

Subject Coverage

Major areas of coverage include:

• Anthropological Linguistics
• Applied Linguistics
• Descriptive Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis / Text Linguistics
• Hearing and Speech Physiology
• Hearing - Pathological and Normal
• History of Linguistics
• Interpersonal Behavior and Communication
• Language Classification
• Language - Pathological and Normal
• Learning Disabilities
• Lexicography / Lexicology
• Mental Retardation
• Morphology
• Nonverbal Communication
• Orthography, Writing Systems
• Philosophy of Language
• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Poetics / Literary Theory
• Psycholinguistics
• Psychometrics
• Semantics
• Semiotics
• Sociolinguistics
• Special Education
• Syntax
• Theory of Linguistics
• Typology