Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 355 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780429491696
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology and Notation -- Part 1 Motivations -- 1 What Might Corpora Tell Us About Language? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What Might a Corpus Tell Us? -- 1.3 The 3A Cycle -- 1.3.1. Annotation, Abstraction and Analysis -- 1.3.2 The Problem of Representational Plurality -- 1.3.3 ICECUP: A Platform for Treebank Research -- 1.4 What Might a Richly Annotated Corpus Tell Us? -- 1.5 External Influences: Modal Shall / Will Over Time -- 1.6 Interacting Grammatical Decisions: NP Premodification -- 1.7 Framing Constraints and Interaction Evidence -- 1.7.1 Framing Frequency Evidence -- 1.7.2 Framing Interaction Evidence -- 1.7.3 Framing and Annotation -- 1.7.4 Framing and Sampling -- 1.8 Conclusions -- Notes -- Part 2 Designing Experiments with Corpora -- 2 The Idea of Corpus Experiments -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Experimentation and Observation -- 2.2.1 Obtaining Data -- 2.2.2 Research Questions and Hypotheses -- 2.2.3 From Hypothesis to Experiment -- 2.3 Evaluating a Hypothesis -- 2.3.1 The Chi-Square Test -- 2.3.2 Extracting Data -- 2.3.3 Visualising Proportions, Probabilities and Significance -- 2.4 Refining the Experiment -- 2.5 Correlations and Causes -- 2.6 A Linguistic Interaction Experiment -- 2.7 Experiments and Disproof -- 2.8 What Is the Point of an Experiment? -- 2.9 Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 That Vexed Problem of Choice -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 The Traditional 'Per Million Words' Approach -- 3.1.2 How Did Per Million Word Statistics Become Dominant? -- 3.1.3 Choice Models and Linguistic Theory -- 3.1.4 The Vexed Problem of Choice -- 3.1.5 Exposure Rates and Other Experimental Models -- 3.1.6 What Do We Mean by 'Choice'? -- 3.2 Parameters of Choice -- 3.2.1 Types of Mutual Substitution.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138589377
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138589384
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wallis, Sean Statistics in corpus linguistics research New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 ISBN 9781138589384
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138589377
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Korpus
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Sprachstatistik
DOI:
10.4324/9780429491696
