Statistics in Language Studies

by Anthony Woods, Paul Fletcher, Arthur Hughes

Book Overview

This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast: including, for example, language acquisition, language variation and many aspects of applied linguistics. The authors give a wide variety of linguistic examples to demonstrate the use of statistics in summarising data in the most appropriate way, and then making helpful inferences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521273129
• ISBN13: 9780521273121
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"