Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Historical linguistics is the study of language change and stability, of the history of individual languages, and of the relatedness between languages. In spite of numerous acknowledgements, the adoption of quantitative methods in historical linguistics ...
Barbara McGillivray, Gard B. Jenset
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R as a Lingua Franca: Advantages of Using R for Quantitative Research in Applied Linguistics [PDF]
, 2016 In this article, we suggest that using R, a statistical software environment, is advantageous for quantitative researchers in applied linguistics. We first provide a brief overview of the reasons why R is popular among researchers in other fields and why
Luke PLONSKY +2 more
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Reflecting on the quantitative turn in linguistics [PDF]
Linguistics, 2021 AbstractLinguistics, English linguistics in particular, has witnessed a remarkable quantitative turn since the 1990s and the early 2000s. It was a turn both in scale and in quality, a turn concerning the degree (including the degree of sophistication) to which quantitative empirical studies, statistical techniques, and statistical modelling have come ...
Bernd Kortmann
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A Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus for Statistical Analysis of Natural Language and Quantitative Linguistics [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic datasets of similar importance, no consensual full version of PG ...
Martin Gerlach, Francesc Font-Clos
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Quranic Studies Made in Austria: Approaching Quantitative Arabic Linguistics
مجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية, 2020 Purpose: The aim of this article is to outline the interest in the Arabic language in Europe and the beginnings of teaching Arabic and establishing Arabic studies in Europe before introducing Quranic studies in Austria as such.
Orhan Elmaz
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Beyond the Zipf-Mandelbrot law in quantitative linguistics [PDF]
, 2001 In this paper the Zipf-Mandelbrot law is revisited in the context of linguistics. Despite its widespread popularity the Zipf--Mandelbrot law can only describe the statistical behaviour of a rather restricted fraction of the total number of words ...
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Revisiting the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative research: Mixed-method designs in applied linguistics [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2011 Over the past decade, mixed methods research has gained particular attention in social and behavioral research as a considerable number of studies investigated theoretical and methodological aspects of conducting mixed methods research.
Esmat Babaii +2 more
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Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing [PDF]
Evolutionary Human SciencesLexical borrowing may provide valuable clues about the sociohistorical context of language contact. Here we explore patterns of vocabulary transfer between languages from three families (Kx’a, Tuu, Khoe-Kwadi) comprising the linguistic unit commonly ...
Anne-Maria Fehn +6 more
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Exploring Word-Adjacency Networks with Multifractal Time Series Analysis Techniques [PDF]
EntropyA novel method of exploring linguistic networks is introduced by mapping word-adjacency networks to time series and applying multifractal analysis techniques.
Jakub Dec +5 more
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Parlez-vous #hashtag ? Quelques éclairages sur l’anglicisme hashtag et ses substituts français mot-dièse et mot-clic [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 Cet article porte sur hashtag, un anglicisme, et ses substituts français mot-dièse et mot-clic à partir de l’observation d’un corpus d’occurrences. L’analyse quantitative montre que le mot hashtag s’emploie le plus fréquemment en France, alors qu’au ...
Schuring Melissa, Vanderheyden Anne
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