Twenty-five years after the emergence of corpus-based translation studies the present paper
offers a critical analysis of the current state of the art in corpus-based translation studies …

Count data is prevalent in many different areas of linguistics, such as when counting words,
syntactic constructions, discourse particles, case markers, or speech errors. The Poisson …

Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R is the first statistics textbook on linear models
for linguistics. The book covers simple uses of linear models through generalized models to …

Statistics lies at the heart of scientific investigation. It helps the researcher to formulate and
test theoretical hypotheses, making generalizations about a population of interest based on …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

This chapter demonstrates comparative sociolinguistic methodology using case studies from
two research programs. The first involves tracking the origins of African American Vernacular …

O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir questões relacionadas à amostragem na sociolinguística
variacionista, considerando a dimensão probabilística e não probabilística. Conceitos de …

This chapter discusses popular non-parametric methods in corpus linguistics: conditional
inference trees and conditional random forests. These methods, which allow the researcher …

This paper is a discussion of methodological problems that (can) arise in the analysis of
multifactorial data analyzed with tree-based or forest-based classifiers in (corpus) linguistics …

One important feature of linguistic communication is that some parts of utterances are more
prominent than others. Prominence as a perceptual feature of spoken language is …