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This textbook examines empirical linguistics from a theoretical linguist’s perspective. It provides both a theoretical discussion of what quantitative corpus linguistics entails and detailed, hands-on, step-by-step instructions to implement the techniques in the field. The statistical methodology and R-based coding from this book teach readers the basic and then more advanced skills to work with large data sets in their linguistics research and studies. Massive data sets are now more than ever the basis for work that ranges from usage-based linguistics to the far reaches of applied linguistics. This book presents much of the methodology in a corpus-based approach. However, the corpus-based methods in this book are also essential components of recent developments in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Material from the book will also be appealing to researchers in digital humanities and the many non-linguistic fields that use textual data analysis and text-based sensorimetrics. Chapters cover topics including corpus processing, frequencing data, and clustering methods. Case studies illustrate each chapter with accompanying data sets, R code, and exercises for use by readers. This book may be used in advanced undergraduate courses, graduate courses, and self-study.
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Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences Guillaume Desagulier Corpus Linguistics and Statistics with R Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Linguistics Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences Editorial Board Thomas DeFanti, Anthony Grafton, Thomas E. Levy, Lev Manovich, Alyn Rockwood Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences is a book series designed to foster research-based conversation with all parts of the university campus from buildings of ivy-covered stone to technologically savvy walls of glass. Scholarship from international researchers and the esteemed editorial board represents the far-reaching applications of computational analysis, statistical models, computer-based programs, and other quantitative methods. Methods are integrated in a dialogue that is sensitive to the broader context of humanistic study and social science research. Scholars, including among others historians, archaeologists, classicists and linguists, promote this interdisciplinary approach. These texts teach new methodological approaches for contemporary research. Each volume exposes readers to a particular research method. Researchers and students then benefit from exposure to subtleties of the larger project or corpus of work in which the quantitative methods come to fruition. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11748 Guillaume Desagulier Corpus Linguistics and Statistics with R Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Linguistics 123 Guillaume Desagulier Université Paris 8 Saint Denis, France Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com. ISSN 2199-0956 ISSN 2199-0964 (electronic) Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences ISBN 978-3-319-64570-4 ISBN 978-3-319-64572-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-64572-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950518 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptiv