Cognitive Linguistics – The Quantitative Turn: The Essential Reader

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2013

Cognitive Linguistics – The Quantitative Turn

The Essential Reader

Edited by: Laura A. Janda

In the series Mouton Reader

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110335255

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About this book

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.

Unique selection of seminal articles
Highly accessible introductory chapter by leading specialist
Requires no previous knowledge of quantitative methods
A must-have for students of linguistics

Author / Editor information

Laura Janda, Tromsø University, Norway.

Reviews

"[...] this book serves as a fine introduction to a set of statistical models. [...]."
Rachel Ramsey in: Cognitive Linguistics 2017; 28(1): 193-202

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Publication sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Quantitative methods in Cognitive Linguistics: An introduction Laura A. Janda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Constructional preemption by contextual mismatch: A corpus-linguistic investigation Anatol Stefanowitsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption Adele E. Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Embodied motivations for metaphorical meanings Marlene Johansson Falck and Raymond W. Gibbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: A detailed case study Anna L. Theakston, Robert Maslen, Elena V. M. Lieven and Michael Tomasello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Discovering constructions by means of collostruction analysis: The English Denominative Construction Beate Hampe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Phonological similarity in multi-word units Stefan Th. Gries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
The acquisition of questions with longdistance dependencies Ewa Dąbrowska, Caroline Rowland and Anna Theakston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English Holger Diessel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Cognitive Sociolinguistics meets loanword research: Measuring variation in the success of anglicisms in Dutch Eline Zenner, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
What constructional profiles reveal about synonymy: A case study of Russian words for SADNESS and HAPPINESS Laura A. Janda and Valery D. Solovyev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Undergraduate Students majoring in Linguistics world-wide
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 321

eBook

Published: July 31, 2013
ISBN: 9783110335255

Hardcover

Published: June 26, 2013
ISBN: 9783110333886