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Empirical Methods of Linguistic Research

Empirical Methods of Linguistic Research. What you will learn. How to write an empirical research paper How to design an experiment / a questionnaire How to describe frequency data (tables, graphs) How to analyse frequency data (statistics) Introduction to relevant computer software.

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Empirical Methods of Linguistic Research

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  1. Empirical Methods of Linguistic Research

  2. What you will learn • How to write an empirical research paper • How to design an experiment / a questionnaire • How to describe frequency data (tables, graphs) • How to analyse frequency data (statistics) • Introduction to relevant computer software

  3. Linguistic data • Collection of written texts • Transcripts of spoken language • Large electronic corpora • Experiments • Questionnaire • Dictionaries • Diary data (child language) • Reference grammars (linguistic typology) • Videos

  4. Language acquisition (1) What’s dat? (2) Who’s dat? (3) When do we leave? (4) Where’s Daddy? (5) Why’s dat? 1. Which WH-word is most frequent in early child language? 2. In which order do the WH words occur? 3. Does input frequency determine the order of acquisition?

  5. Language acquisition

  6. Language acquisition Table 1. Raw frequencies

  7. Language acquisition Table 2. Mean proportions

  8. Language acquisition Table 3. Age of first appearance

  9. Language acquisition Table 4. Correlation

  10. Language acquisition Table 5. Correlation (paired)

  11. Corpus linguistics (1) a. When Peter arrived, Sally left. b. Sally left, when Peter arrived. (2) a. If you had talked to her, you would have heard about it. b. You would have heard about it, if you had talked to her. What determines the positioning of the adverbial clause?

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  16. Historical linguistics English has lost about 200 irregular verbs since Old English. In a few cases, regular verbs have become irregular (e.g. catch –caught). Today there are only 180 irregular verbs left. 1. Is there still pressure to regularize irregular verbs in English? 2. What determines the regularization of irregular verbs? 3. Why have some regular verbs become regularized?

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  21. Psycholinguistics/Cognitive Linguistics Complete the sentence: (1) Das ist der Mann …. (2) Das ist das Buch … (3) Das ist die Stadt … (4) Das ist jemand … (5) Das ist derjenige …

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  32. Linguistic typology

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