Ebook: Cognitive Linguistics – The Quantitative Turn: The Essential Reader

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.

• Unique selection of seminal articles
• Highly accessible introductory chapter by leading specialist
• Requires no previous knowledge of quantitative methods
• A must-have for students of linguistics