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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453298803321

Titolo

Cognitive linguistics : the quantitative turn : the essential reader / / edited by Laura A. Janda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Mouton Reader

Mouton reader

Altri autori (Persone)

JandaLaura A

Disciplina

410.18

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

College readers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Collection of texts published previously.

Reader.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Publication sources -- Quantitative methods in Cognitive Linguistics: An introduction / Janda, Laura A. -- Constructional preemption by contextual mismatch: A corpus-linguistic investigation / Stefanowitsch, Anatol -- Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption / Goldberg, Adele E. -- Embodied motivations for metaphorical meanings / Falck, Marlene Johansson / Gibbs, Raymond W. -- The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: A detailed case study / Theakston, Anna L. / Maslen, Robert / Lieven, Elena V. M. / Tomasello, Michael -- Discovering constructions by means of collostruction analysis: The English Denominative Construction / Hampe, Beate -- Phonological similarity in multi-word units / Gries, Stefan Th. -- The acquisition of questions with long distance dependencies / Dąbrowska, Ewa / Rowland, Caroline / Theakston, Anna -- Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English / Diessel, Holger -- Cognitive Sociolinguistics meets loanword research: Measuring variation in the success of Anglicism's in Dutch / Zenner, Eline / Speelman, Dirk / Geeraerts, Dirk -- What



constructional profiles reveal about synonymy: A case study of Russian words for SADNESS and HAPPINESS / Janda, Laura A. / Solovyev, Valery D.

Sommario/riassunto

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.