Book description
Quantitative Methods in Linguistics
offers a practical introduction to statistics and quantitative analysis
with data sets drawn from the field and coverage of phonetics,
psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and syntax,
as well as probability distribution and quantitative methods.
- 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 www. blackwellpublishing. com/quantmethods.
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.
