Cognitive linguistics the quantitative turn : the essential reader /

Designed to serve as a textbook for courses in statistical analysis in linguistics, this book orients the reader to various quantitative methods and explains their implications for the field. The methods include chi-square, Fisher test, binomial test, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and cluster anal...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Janda, Laura A.
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Mouton reader
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110335255
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Summary: Designed to serve as a textbook for courses in statistical analysis in linguistics, this book orients the reader to various quantitative methods and explains their implications for the field. The methods include chi-square, Fisher test, binomial test, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and cluster analysis. The advantages and limitations of each method are detailed and each method is illustrated with exemplary articles presenting linguistic data.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (vii, 321 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9783110335255
Index Number: P165
CLC: H04
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Quantitative methods in Cognitive Linguistics: An introduction /
Constructional preemption by contextual mismatch: A corpus-linguistic investigation /
Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption /
Embodied motivations for metaphorical meanings /
The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: A detailed case study /
Discovering constructions by means of collostruction analysis: The English Denominative Construction /
Phonological similarity in multi-word units /
The acquisition of questions with longdistance dependencies /
Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English /
Cognitive Sociolinguistics meets loanword research: Measuring variation in the success of anglicisms in Dutch /
What constructional profiles reveal about synonymy: A case study of Russian words for SADNESS and HAPPINESS /