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Quantitative research methods for linguists :

0415736315

0415736323

9780415736312

9780415736329

9781315181707

Quantitative research methods for linguists :

[Book]

a questions and answers approach for students /

Tim Grant, Urszula Clark, Gertrud Reershemius, David Pollard, Sarah Hayes and Garry Plappert.

New York, NY :

Routledge,

2017.

©2017

xi, 152 pages :

illustrations, maps ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basic Statistical Ideas -- Basic concepts of quantification and number -- Why quantify? -- What is a number? -- Classifying numbers -- Converting nominal measures into continuous numbers -- Fractions, decimals and percentages -- How you express probability with numbers -- Summary -- References -- Designing research projects which count things -- Introduction: the dinner party experience -- Designing a quantitative research project -- Data collection example: working with questionnaires -- Data collection example: the experimental approach -- Data collection example: working with corpus data -- Describing your data -- Designing a study so that a statistical test is possible -- What do we mean by data? -- Summary -- References -- Asking and Answering Quantitative Questions -- Survey of the sexiness of Klingon: is your data normal? -- The research story -- Designing the study to collect numerical data -- Data collection -- Describing the data with numbers -- Describing the data with pictures -- Drawing statistical conclusions from the data -- References -- Who speaks Low German with their children? Visualisation -- describing words with pictures -- The research story -- The role of visualisation -- Tables -- Charts and graphs -- When visualisations mislead -- Boxplot graphs -- Summary -- References -- Whose English uses more present perfect? Comparison of two groups where the data is not normally distributed -- Mann-Whitney U test -- The research story -- The data -- Descriptive statistics -- A follow-on research story? Identifying words that might merit further investigation -- Summary -- References -- Is there a difference in the way 'ing' is pronounced by people from Birmingham and the Black Country? Testing for difference using chi square -- The research story -- Designing your research to make the analysis easy -- The data -- Answering the question with chi square analysis -- Summary -- Do letter writers tend to use nouns and verbs together? Scatterplots and correlation of linear data -- The research story -- Designing your research to make the analysis easy -- The data -- Answering the question using a Pearson's correlation analysis -- Does the use of pronouns differ between two academic disciplines? Using t-tests to compare two groups -- The research story -- Designing your research to make the analysis easy -- The data -- Answering the question with a t-test -- Summary -- Do different academic subjects have distinctive patterns of pronoun use? Comparison between three or more groups -- one-way ANOVA -- The research story -- Designing your research to make the analysis easy -- The data -- Answering the question with an ANOVA -- Discussion -- Asking and answering quantitative questions: conclusions -- How to ruin your research project (and how to succeed with it).

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Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to research methods for undergraduates undertaking research for the first time. Employing a task-based approach, the authors demonstrate key methods through a series of worked examples, allowing students to take a learn-by-doing approach and making quantitative methods less daunting for the novice researcher. Key features include: Chapters framed around real research questions, walking the student step-by-step through the various methods; Guidance on how to design your own research project; Basic questions and answers that every new researcher needs to know; A comprehensive glossary that makes the most technical of terms clear to readers; Coverage of different statistical packages including R and SPSS. Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics is essential reading for all students undertaking degrees in linguistics and English language studies. Book jacket.

Applied linguistics-- Research-- Methodology.

Applied linguistics-- Study and teaching, Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Linguistics-- Study and teaching, Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Applied linguistics-- Study and teaching.

Linguistics-- Study and teaching.

Linguistik

Qualitative Methode

Grant, Tim, (Professor of forensic linguistics)

Clark, Urszula

Hayes, Sarah, (Senior lecturer)

Plappert, Garry, (Lecturer)

Pollard, David, (Learning and teaching technologist)

Reershemius, Gertrud

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