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Book SynopsisIn this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the corpus linguistics in general, its most important methodological tools, its statistical nature, and the relation of all these topics to past and current usage-based theorizing. Central notions discussed in detail include frequency, dispersion, context, and others in a variety of applications and case studies; four practice sessions offer short introductions of how to compute various corpus statistics with the open source programming language and environment R.
Table of ContentsNote on Supplementary Material Preface by the Series Editor Preface by the Author About the Author 1 Corpus Linguistics: the (Methods of the) Field and Its Relation to Cognitive Linguistics 2 On—and/or against—Frequencies 3 Frequency: Practice with R 4 On Recency and Dispersion 5 Dispersion: Practice with R 6 On Association 7 Association: Practice with R 8 On Context 9 Concordance, Surprisal, Entropy: Practice with R 10 Corpus-Linguistic Applications in Cognitive/Usage-Based Explorations of Learner Language References About the Series Editor Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers
