Empirical linguistics
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書誌事項
Empirical linguistics
（Open linguistics series）
Continuum, 2002
- : pbk
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Includes references (p. [209]-217) and index
Reprinted in paperback 2002
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples ("corpora"). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as "Is there one English language or many Englishes?" and "Do different social groups use characteristically elaborated or restricted language codes?" Sampson shows readers how to use some of the new techniques for themselves, giving a step-by-step "recipe-book" method for applying a quantitative technique that was invented by Alan Turing in the World War II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park and has been rediscovered and widely applied in linguistics fifty years later.
目次
- From central embedding to empirical linguistics
- why are long sentences longer than short ones? depth in English grammar - depth of English grammar
- demographic correlates of complexity in British speech
- the role of taxonomy
- good-Turing frequency estimation without tears
- objective evidence is all we need
- what was transformational grammar? evidence against the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction
- meaning and the limits of science.
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