Research methods in language variation and change /
"Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a strong empirical focus. Containing twenty-three chapters, each devoted to a different research method, this volume brings together the expertise and insight of a range of established pract...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- 18. Quantifying variation and estimating the effects of sample size on the frequencies of linguistic variables / Heikki Mannila, Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
- 19. Elementary statistical testing with R / Stefan Th. Gries
- Section 8. Multifactorial Analysis
- 20. Analysing and interpreting variation in the sociolinguistic tradition / Sali A. Tagliamonte
- 21. Identifying multidimensional patterns of variation across registers / Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray
- 22. Computing linguistic distances between varieties / April McMahon and Warren Maguire
- 23. Analysing aggregated linguistic data / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Introduction: investigating language variation and change / Manfred Krug, Julia Schlüter and Anette Rosenbach
- Part I. Collecting Empirical Data: Section
- 1. Fieldwork and Linguistic Mapping
- 1. Collecting ethnographic and sociolinguistic data / Daniel Schreier
- 2. Using participant observation and social network analysis / Lynn Clark and Graeme Trousdale
- 3. Computer mapping of language data / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
- Section 2. Eliciting Linguistic Data
- 4. Designing and conducting interviews and questionnaires / Manfred Krug and Katrin Sell
- 5. Obtaining introspective acceptability judgements
- Thomas Hoffmann
- Section 3. Alternatives to Standard Reference Corpora
- 6. Using historical literature databases as corpora / Julia Schlüter
- 7. Using the OED quotations database as a diachronic corpus / Günter Rohdenburg
- 8. Using web-based data for the study of global English / Marianne Hundt
- Part II. Analysing Empirical Data
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- Section 4. Corpus Analysis
- 9. Using 'small' corpora to document ongoing grammatical change / Christian Mair
- 10. Using tag sequences to retrieve grammatical structures / Sebastian Hoffmann
- 11. Categorizing syntactic constructions in a corpus / Nicholas Smith and Elena Seoane
- Section 5. Phonetic and Phonological Analysis
- 12. Analysing phonetic and phonological variation on the segmental level / Ulrike Gut
- 13. Analysing phonetic and phonological variation on the suprasegmental level / Ulrike Gut
- 14. Reconstructing stress in Old and Middle English / Donka Minkova
- Section 6. Combinations of Multiple Types of Data
- 15. Combining elicitation data with corpus data / Anette Rosenbach
- 16. Using convergent evidence from psycholinguistics and usage / Marilyn Ford and Joan Bresnan
- 17. Applying typological methods in dialectology / Lieselotte Anderwald and Bernd Kortmann
- Part III. Evaluating Empirical Data
- Section 7. Basic Statistical Analysis
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