Cognitive linguistics : the quantitative turn : the essential reader

✍ Scribed by Janda, Laura A.

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Series: Mouton reader.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

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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.

✦ Subjects

Cognitive grammar;College readers;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax

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