Quantitative Methods in Linguistics
Autor Johnsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mar 2008
- Provides balanced treatment of the practical aspects of handling quantitative linguistic data
- Includes sample datasets contributed by researchers working in a variety of sub-disciplines of linguistics
- Uses R, the statistical software package most commonly used by linguists, to discover patterns in quantitative data and to test linguistic hypotheses
- Includes student-friendly end-of-chapter assignments and is accompanied by online resources at available in the 'Downloads' section, below
Preț: 714.20 lei
Preț vechi: 978.35 lei
-27%
Puncte Express: 1071
Carte tipărită la comandă
Livrare economică 21 octombrie-04 noiembrie
Livrare prin curier în România Termenul estimat este afișat lângă disponibilitate.
Transport gratuit pentru acest produs Plată online sau ramburs, în funcție de opțiunile comenzii.
Retur gratuit în 14 zile Comandă securizată și suport în română.
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781405144247
ISBN-10: 1405144246
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1405144246
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Advanced undergraduate and early graduate students in linguistics.Notă biografică
Keith Johnson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, Second Edition (Blackwell, 2002), as well as numerous articles on phonetics and speech perception.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments.
Design of the Book.
1. Fundamentals of Quantitative Analysis.
1.1 What We Accomplish in Quantitative Analysis.
1.2 How to Describe an Observation.
1.3 Frequency Distributions: A Fundamental Building Block of Quantitative Analysis.
1.4 Types of Distributions.
1.5 Is Normal Data, Well, Normal?.
1.6 Measures of Central Tendency.
1.7 Measures of Dispersion.
1.8 Standard Deviation of the Normal Distribution.
Exercises.
2. Patterns and Tests.
2.1 Sampling.
2.2 Data.
2.3 Hypothesis Testing.
2.3.1 The Central Limit Theorem.
2.3.2 Score Keeping.
2.3.3 H0: µ = 100.
2.3.4 Type I and Type II Error.
2.4 Correlation.
2.4.1 Covariance and Correlation.
2.4.2 The Regression Line.
2.4.3 Amount of Variance Accounted For.
Exercises.
3. Phonetics.
3.1 Comparing Mean Values.
3.1.1 Cherokee Voice Onset Time: µ1971=µ2001.
3.1.2 Samples Have Equal Variance.
3.1.3 If the Samples Do Not Have Equal Variance.
3.1.4 Paired t Test: Are Men Different from Women?.
3.1.5 The Sign Test.
3.2 Predicting the Back of the Tongue from the Front: Multiple Regression.
3.2.1 The Covariance Matrix.
3.2.2 More than One slope: The bi.
3.2.3 Selecting a Model.
3.3 Tongue Shape Factors: Principal Components Analysis.
Exercises.
4. Psycholinguistics.
4.1 Analysis of Variance: One Factor, More than Two Levels.
4.2 Two Factors: Interaction.
4.3 Repeated Measures.
4.3.1 An Example of Repeated Measures ANOVA.
4.3.2 Repeated Measures ANOVA with a Between-Subjects Factor.
4.4 The "Language as Fixed Effect" Fallacy.
4.5 Exercises.
5. Sociolinguistics.
5.1 When the Data are Counts - Contingency Tables.
5.1.1 Frequency in a Contingency Table.
5.2 Working with Probabilities: The Binomial Distribution.
5.2.1 Bush or Kerry?.
5.3 An Aside about Maximum Likelihood Estimation.
5.4 Logistic Regression.
5.5 An Example from the [¿]treets of Columbus.
5.5.1 On the Relationship between x2 and G2.
5.5.2 More than One Predictor.
5.6 Logistic Regression as Regression: An Ordinal Effect - Age.
5.7 Varbrul/R Comparison.
Exercises.
6. Historical Linguistics.
6.1 Cladistics: Where Linguistics and Evolutionary Biology Meet.
6.2 Clustering on the Basis of Shared Vocabulary.
6.3 Cladistic Analysis: Combining Character-Based Subtrees.
6.4 Clustering on the Basis of Spelling Similarity.
6.5 Multidimensional Scaling: A Language Similarity Space.
Exercises.
7. Syntax.
7.1 Measuring Sentence Acceptability.
7.2 A Psychogrammatical Law?.
7.3 Linear Mixed Effects in the Syntactic Expression of Agents in English.
7.3.1 Linear Regression: Overall, and Separately by Verbs.
7.3.2 Fitting a Linear Mixed-Effects Model: Fixed and Random Effects.
7.3.3 Fitting Five More Mixed-Effects Models: Finding the Best Model.
7.4 Predicting the Dative Alternation: Logistic Modeling of Syntactic Corpora Data.
7.4.1 Logistic Model of Dative Alternation.
7.4.2 Evaluating the Fit of the Model.
7.4.3 Adding a Random Factor: Mixed Effects Logistic Regression.
Exercises.
Appendix 7A.
References.
Index
1. Fundamentals of Quantitative Analysis.
1.1 What We Accomplish in Quantitative Analysis.
1.2 How to Describe an Observation.
1.3 Frequency Distributions: A Fundamental Building Block of Quantitative Analysis.
1.4 Types of Distributions.
1.5 Is Normal Data, Well, Normal?.
1.6 Measures of Central Tendency.
1.7 Measures of Dispersion.
1.8 Standard Deviation of the Normal Distribution.
Exercises.
2. Patterns and Tests.
2.1 Sampling.
2.2 Data.
2.3 Hypothesis Testing.
2.3.1 The Central Limit Theorem.
2.3.2 Score Keeping.
2.3.3 H0: µ = 100.
2.3.4 Type I and Type II Error.
2.4 Correlation.
2.4.1 Covariance and Correlation.
2.4.2 The Regression Line.
2.4.3 Amount of Variance Accounted For.
Exercises.
3. Phonetics.
3.1 Comparing Mean Values.
3.1.1 Cherokee Voice Onset Time: µ1971=µ2001.
3.1.2 Samples Have Equal Variance.
3.1.3 If the Samples Do Not Have Equal Variance.
3.1.4 Paired t Test: Are Men Different from Women?.
3.1.5 The Sign Test.
3.2 Predicting the Back of the Tongue from the Front: Multiple Regression.
3.2.1 The Covariance Matrix.
3.2.2 More than One slope: The bi.
3.2.3 Selecting a Model.
3.3 Tongue Shape Factors: Principal Components Analysis.
Exercises.
4. Psycholinguistics.
4.1 Analysis of Variance: One Factor, More than Two Levels.
4.2 Two Factors: Interaction.
4.3 Repeated Measures.
4.3.1 An Example of Repeated Measures ANOVA.
4.3.2 Repeated Measures ANOVA with a Between-Subjects Factor.
4.4 The "Language as Fixed Effect" Fallacy.
4.5 Exercises.
5. Sociolinguistics.
5.1 When the Data are Counts - Contingency Tables.
5.1.1 Frequency in a Contingency Table.
5.2 Working with Probabilities: The Binomial Distribution.
5.2.1 Bush or Kerry?.
5.3 An Aside about Maximum Likelihood Estimation.
5.4 Logistic Regression.
5.5 An Example from the [¿]treets of Columbus.
5.5.1 On the Relationship between x2 and G2.
5.5.2 More than One Predictor.
5.6 Logistic Regression as Regression: An Ordinal Effect - Age.
5.7 Varbrul/R Comparison.
Exercises.
6. Historical Linguistics.
6.1 Cladistics: Where Linguistics and Evolutionary Biology Meet.
6.2 Clustering on the Basis of Shared Vocabulary.
6.3 Cladistic Analysis: Combining Character-Based Subtrees.
6.4 Clustering on the Basis of Spelling Similarity.
6.5 Multidimensional Scaling: A Language Similarity Space.
Exercises.
7. Syntax.
7.1 Measuring Sentence Acceptability.
7.2 A Psychogrammatical Law?.
7.3 Linear Mixed Effects in the Syntactic Expression of Agents in English.
7.3.1 Linear Regression: Overall, and Separately by Verbs.
7.3.2 Fitting a Linear Mixed-Effects Model: Fixed and Random Effects.
7.3.3 Fitting Five More Mixed-Effects Models: Finding the Best Model.
7.4 Predicting the Dative Alternation: Logistic Modeling of Syntactic Corpora Data.
7.4.1 Logistic Model of Dative Alternation.
7.4.2 Evaluating the Fit of the Model.
7.4.3 Adding a Random Factor: Mixed Effects Logistic Regression.
Exercises.
Appendix 7A.
References.
Index
Descriere
Quantitative Methods in Linguistics introduces the general strategies and methods of quantitative analysis. The book dedicates individual chapters to phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and syntax, as well as two introductory chapters on probability distribution and quantitative methods.