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Help with Searching
Words and fields are combined by [and].
Entering "Latin Explosion" finds only
articles that contain both words (anywhere in the document), including
occurrences such as "the".
Entering "Lamboy" in author field and
"language" in abstract field finds only articles by that
author which also contain this specific word in the abstract.
Two or more words are not searched as a phrase but
as individual words.
The following wildcard characters are supported:
* matches any number of characters, while ? matches one character.
The wildcards * and ? can appear anywhere in a word. For example:
- A search for "latin?" will retrieve any articles with
the words "latino" or "latina".
- A search for "latin*" will retrieve any articles with
the words "latinos" or "latino/a".
- A search on "biling*" will find any articles with the
words "bilingual", "bilingually" or "bilingualism".
- A search on "espa*" will find any articles with the words
"español", "espacio", or "espacios".
An automatic "stem" search
finds variations of words (e.g., "run" finds also "runs",
"ran" and "running"). Please note that currently
stemming will only work for English language terms.
Searching for non-English characters is not currently
supported, but may be a feature implemented in the future. At the
present time, the * wildcard may be substituted for the non-english
characters to facilitate searching. For example:
- To find articles by Gustavo Mejía, search on "mej*a" in
the author index.
- To find articles by Nancy Barceló, search on "barcel*"
in the author index.
- To find articles by Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, search on
"sandoval-s*nchez" in the author index.
- To find articles by Ellen Gil-Gómez, search on "gil-g*mez"
in the author index.
- To find articles with the word "español", search on "espa*ol".
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