Research methods in language variation and change /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
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| Description: | xxvi, 511 pages ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9701077 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: investigating language variation and change
- Part I. Collecting Empirical Data
- Section 1. Fieldwork and Linguistic Mapping
- 1. Collecting ethnographic and sociolinguistic data
- 2. Using participant observation and social network analysis
- 3. Computer mapping of language data
- Section 2. Eliciting Linguistic Data
- 4. Designing and conducting interviews and questionnaires
- 5. Obtaining introspective acceptability judgements
- Section 3. Alternatives to Standard Reference Corpora
- 6. Using historical literature databases as corpora
- 7. Using the OED quotations database as a diachronic corpus
- 8. Using web-based data for the study of global English
- Part II. Analysing Empirical Data
- Section 4. Corpus Analysis
- 9. Using 'small' corpora to document ongoing grammatical change
- 10. Using tag sequences to retrieve grammatical structures
- 11. Categorizing syntactic constructions in a corpus
- Section 5. Phonetic and Phonological Analysis
- 12. Analysing phonetic and phonological variation on the segmental level
- 13. Analysing phonetic and phonological variation on the suprasegmental level
- 14. Reconstructing stress in Old and Middle English
- Section 6. Combinations of Multiple Types of Data
- 15. Combining elicitation data with corpus data
- 16. Using convergent evidence from psycholinguistics and usage
- 17. Applying typological methods in dialectology
- Part III. Evaluating Empirical Data
- Section 7. Basic Statistical Analysis
- 18. Quantifying variation and estimating the effects of sample size on the frequencies of linguistic variables
- 19. Elementary statistical testing with
- Section 8. Multifactorial Analysis
- 20. Analysing and interpreting variation in the sociolinguistic tradition
- 21. Identifying multidimensional patterns of variation across registers
- 22. Computing linguistic distances between varieties
- 23. Analysing aggregated linguistic data
