Corpora and Statistics
Information
Contact: dsg.up8@gmail.com
Downloads: www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr (password: student)
Class: Friday 9h45 - room 214
Assessement 1 - Stats - Instructions
Assessement 2 - Collocations
Data
Lexical Semantics - General Play
Lexical Semantics - from 2021
Discourse Analysis
Grateful - Near-Synonymy
Shame - Near-Synonymy
Women - Appraisal - UAM
Women - Appraisal - P8
Commands - UPDATED
Basics - Chi 2 / Loglinliear - looking for significant differences
Patterns - Correspondence Analysis - looking for complex patterns
Categories - Cluster Analysis - sorting data by categorising them
Regression - Predictive modelling - testing hypotheses explaining behaviour
Objectives
Gain understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of contextualised observational data for testing linguistic theories and language descriptions.
Gain understanding of strengths and weakness of different corpus methods in linguistics (collocation-based, feature-based, latent / vector-based)
Gain understanding of fundamentals of quantitative inductive research
Gain experience in fundamental techniques for bivariate quantitative analysis and association measurement
Gain experience in multivariate patterns analysis and dimension reduction techniques
Gain experience in confirmatory and predictive modelling of categorical and ordinal data
From 2021
Reading
All please read through: Techniques and tools Corpus methods and statistics
Behavioural Analysis - Please choose one to read through:
Syntax
Bresenan 2005 - Dative Alternation in English
Szmrecsanyi 2003 - Future Cxs in English
Statistics
General
Baayern 2008
Gries 2013
Specific
Significance - Gries 2014
Collocation - Hilpert 2014
Discrimintation - Divjak 2014
Association – Glynn 2014
Predicttion – Speelman 2014
Project 1 - Stats for corpora
Instructions
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Theory
Grammaticality and Usage-Based Model
super short overviews
Dąbrowska, E. 2015. What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it? Frontiers in Psychology 6:852.
Goldberg, A. 2008. Universal Grammar? Or prerequisites for natural language? Brain and Behavioral Sciences 31: 552-523.
Tomasello (2009) - The usage-based theory of language acquisition, E. Bavin & L. Naigles, (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Child Language, 89-106. Cambridge: CUP.
Intro to idea of constructions in language learning
Ellis et al. 2016. Constructions and Usage-based Approaches to Language Acquisition, Language Learning 66: 23-44.
Kilgariff 1997 - important early study by one of the most influiential copus linguists of late 20C
Examples of semantic studies
Baker 2004 - Old but perhaps interesting little study on political discourse and homosexuality
Baker 2008 – old but perhaps interesting little study on news disacourse and immigration
Berracheche_2020 - A short study just published by one of my students political discourse and immigration
Glynn & Fischer 2010 - A collection of studies on quantifying semantics
Glynn_&_Robinson_2014.pdf - A collection of studies on using corpora in semantics
Bednarek 2015 - Traditional discourse analysis of bad language and gender
Bednarek_2016 - Traditional discourse anslysis of evaluation and social media
Gries 2006 - Example of BPA approach to semasiology/polysemy
Heylen et al 2008 - Example of LSA approach to onomasiology / synonymy
Heylen et al 2015.pdf - Example of LSA to semasiology / polysemy
Janda 2009 - Example of BPA approach to onomasiology / synonymy
Tupala 2019 - Example of BPA apprpach to discourse
Glynn 2012 - Example of BPA apprpach to polysemy
Glynn 2016 - Example of BPA apprpach to polysemy
Read & Carroll 2010 - Annotating Appraisal
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