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 …

Quantitative studies in linguistics almost always involve data points that are related to each
other, such as multiple data points from the same participant, multiple texts from the same …

In the last two decades, statistical clustering models have emerged as a dominant model of
how infants learn the sounds of their language. However, recent empirical and …

Previous work demonstrates that a word's status as morphologically-simple or complex may
be reflected in its phonetic realisation. One possible source for these effects is phonetic …

In languages such as Japanese or Korean, most research on politeness focuses on
morphological and lexical honorifics. Here, we ask whether listeners can perceive the …

The first comprehensive textbook on regression modeling for linguistic data offers an incisive
conceptual overview along with worked examples that teach practical skills for realistic data …

Within quantitative phonetics, it is common practice to draw conclusions based on statistical
significance alone. Using incomplete neutralization of final devoicing in German as a case …

This special issue introduces a series of papers that make available new methods to the
phonetic and linguistic community and reflect upon existing data analysis practices. In our …

It is uncontroversial that morphological processes can change phonological surface
representations. However, some empirical evidence also suggests that morphological …

The study explored whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speech sounds could
be turned into sound change through propagation around a community of speakers. The …