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Eileen Fitzpatrick (ed.): Corpus linguistics beyond the word: corpus research from phrase to discourse University of Antwerp
English Corpus Linguistics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article reflects on the status of corpus-linguistic methodologies in English linguistics, and on the role of English linguistics in the development of corpus linguistics: what does English-language corpus linguistics look like from the outside? What is the extent to which English-language corpus linguistics is comparatively well-endowed with resources, in a way that other languages are not? And finally, what are key corpus-linguistic ...
Corpus linguistics University of Antwerp
The development of corpus linguistics has led to the creation of new methods for collecting and analyzing linguistic data, which were made possible thanks to the development of computers and the Internet. This new direction in linguistics has encouraged spectacular advances in dealing with the multiple facets of human language in all its complexity from a scientific perspective. This book intends to introduce such a wealth to readers who are not ...
Multiple Correspondence Analysis as Heuristic Tool to Unveil Confounding Variables in Corpus Linguistics KU Leuven
Corpus linguistic research relies on corpora which generally display an unbalanced structure. We will discuss a potential corollary of this biased structure which is rarely accounted for in (corpus) linguistics, namely con-founding variables. These are variables increasing, diminishing or reversing an explanatory variables marginal effect compared to its conditional effect. Analyzing four instances of confounding in a variational case study ...
Generalizability in mixed models: Lessons from corpus linguistics KU Leuven
Part of the generalizability issues that haunt controlled lab experiment designs in psychology, and more particularly in psycholinguistics, can be alleviated by adopting corpus linguistic methods. These work with natural data. This advantage comes at a cost: in corpus studies, lexemes and language users can show different kinds of skew. We discuss a number of solutions to bolster the control.
Data modelling in corpus linguistics University of Antwerp
Corpus linguistics allows researchers to process millions of words. However, the more words we analyse, i.e., the more data we acquire, the more urgent the call for correct data interpretation becomes. In recent years, a number of studies saw the light attempting to profile some prolific authors' linguistic decline, linking this decline to pathological conditions such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD). However, in line with the nature of the ...
Spurious effects in variational corpus linguistics. Identification and implications of confounding KU Leuven
As repositories of spontaneously realized language, corpora generally have an uncontrolled and unbalanced structure where all variables operate simultaneously. Consequently, a variable’s real effect can be concealed when studied in isolation because of the exclusion of the impact of other potentially confounding variables. Analyzing a variational case study, the alternation between inflected and uninflected attributive adjectives in Dutch, it ...