Cognitive Linguistics – The Quantitative Turn : : The Essential Reader / / ed. by Laura A. Janda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Diessel, Holger,; Dąbrowska, Ewa,; Falck, Marlene Johansson,; Geeraerts, Dirk,; Gibbs, Raymond W.,; Goldberg, Adele E.,; Gries, Stefan Th.,; Hampe, Beate,; Janda, Laura A.,; Lieven, Elena V. M.,; Maslen, Robert,; Rowland, Caroline,; Solovyev, Valery D.,; Speelman, Dirk,; Stefanowitsch, Anatol,; Theakston, Anna L.,; Theakston, Anna,; Tomasello, Michael,; Zenner, Eline,
• HerausgeberIn: Janda, Laura A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Reader
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Publication sources --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110335255; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110317350; 9783110317244; 9783110317237
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110335255
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Laura A. Janda.

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.