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Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential KU Leuven
© Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2017. The paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics. Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about language on usage patterns in collections of naturalistic, authentic speech or text. Because this is what is typically done in variationist sociolinguistics work, I argue that variationist ...
Probabilistic grammar: The view from Cognitive Sociolinguistics KU Leuven
In this paper, I propose that Probabilistic Grammar may benefit from incorporating theoretical insights from Cognitive (Socio)Linguistics. I begin by introducing Cognitive Linguistics. Then, I propose a model of the domain-general cognitive constraints (markedness of coding, statistical preemption, and structural priming) that condition language (variation). Subsequently, three case studies are presented that test the predictions of this model ...
Computational sociolinguistics : a survey Ghent University
Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language. In this article we present a survey of the emerging field of computational sociolinguistics that reflects this increased interest. We aim to provide a comprehensive overview of CL research on sociolinguistic themes, featuring topics ...