ABSTRACT
Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to research methods for undergraduates undertaking research for the first time. Employing a task-based approach, the authors demonstrate key methods through a series of worked examples, allowing students to take a learn-by-doing approach and making quantitative methods less daunting for the novice researcher.
Key features include:
- Chapters framed around real research questions, walking the student step-by-step through the various methods;
- Guidance on how to design your own research project;
- Basic questions and answers that every new researcher needs to know;
- A comprehensive glossary that makes the most technical of terms clear to readers;
- Coverage of different statistical packages including R and SPSS.
Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics is essential reading for all students undertaking degrees in linguistics and English language studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|49 pages
Basic statistical ideas
part II|86 pages
Asking and answering quantitative questions
chapter 4|11 pages
Who speaks Low German with their children?
Visualisation – describing words with pictures
chapter 5|14 pages
Whose English uses more present perfect?
Comparison of two groups where the data is not normally distributed – Mann-Whitney U test
chapter 6|11 pages
Is there a difference in the way ‘ing’ is pronounced by people from Birmingham and the Black Country?
Testing for difference using chi square
chapter 7|10 pages
Do letter writers tend to use nouns and verbs together?
Scatterplots and correlation of linear data
chapter 8|12 pages
Does the use of pronouns differ between two academic disciplines?
Using t-tests to compare two groups
chapter 9|8 pages
Do different academic subjects have distinctive patterns of pronoun use?
Comparison between three or more groups – one-way ANOVA