Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics using R

by R.H. Baayen

Statistical analysis is a useful skill for linguists and psycholinguists, allowing them to understand the quantitative structure of their data. This textbook provides a straightforward introduction to the statistical analysis of language. Designed for linguists with a non-mathematical background, it clearly introduces the basic principles and methods of statistical analysis, using 'R', the leading computational statistics programme. The reader is guided step-by-step through a range of real data sets, allowing them to analyse acoustic data, construct grammatical trees for a variety of languages, quantify register variation in corpus linguistics, and measure experimental data using state-of-the-art models. The visualization of data plays a key role, both in the initial stages of data exploration and later on when the reader is encouraged to criticize various models. Containing over 40 exercises with model answers, this book will be welcomed by all linguists wishing to learn more about working with and presenting quantitative data.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Reference, Science

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Leonardo]

Recomendado en Natural Language Processing with Python por el tema de "Corpus Linguistics". Pág.74

[Carla]

Sehr guter Einstieg in R für die Auswertung linguistischer Daten, nicht nur für quantitative Linguistik.