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The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1, Process /

The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1, Process / ed. by Sam Featherston, Susanne Winkler. - 1 online resource (265 p.) : Num. figs. - Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 101 0167-4331 ; .

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Empirical linguistics: Process and product -- Linguistic choices vs. probabilities – how much and what can linguistic theory explain? -- How to provide exactly one interpretation for every sentence, or what eye movements reveal about quantifier scope -- A scale for measuring well-formedness: Why syntax needs boiling and freezing points -- The thin line between facts and fiction -- Annotating genericity: How do humans decide? (A case study in ontology extraction) -- Canonicity in argument realization and verb semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease -- Automated collection and analysis of phonological data -- Semantic evidence and syntactic theory -- Automated support for evidence retrieval in documents with nonstandard orthography -- Scaling issues in the measurement of linguistic acceptability -- Conjoint analysis in linguistics – Multi-factorial analysis of Slavonic possessive adjectives

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The contributions to The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process reveal why the data-driven approach makes for a research environment which is fast-moving and democratic: technological change has made the sources of linguistic data readily accessible. These contributions show the methods both professional and student linguists are using to gather more evidence more easily than before.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9783110213386 9783110216141

10.1515/9783110216141 doi


Computational linguistics--Methodology.
Discourse analysis--Data processing.
Empirische Linguistik.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

Empirical linguistics.

P98 / .F78eb vol. 1

410.285