{"title":"A Case Study on Some Frequent Concepts in Works of Poetry","authors":"Michael Pace-Sigge","doi":"10.1558/jrds.38938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.38938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123197871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing Processing Time Data in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Research: A Multivariate Mixed-effects Approach","authors":"Bronson Hui","doi":"10.1558/jrds.39117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.39117","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I introduce the use of an extension of the popular linear mixed-effects models: multivariate mixed models which can handle multiple outcome variables. This technique is especially useful for applied linguists and second language researchers who use processing time data (e.g., accuracy and reaction times) obtained from timed decision tasks, text-based eye tracking, and self-paced reading. It can address the long-standing issue of multiple comparisons as a result of having multiple outcomes (e.g., first fixation durations and total reading times in text-based eye tracking, and time spent in different regions in self-paced reading). This technique also provides exciting opportunities for researchers to ask new questions that could not be addressed in a straightforward manner with traditional statistics. With this technique, researchers are able to investigate differential effects of a predictor on different outcomes. Through a demonstration in R using published, open eye-tracking data, I contextualize my discussion of the technique, offering also practical, step-by-step, and annotated guidelines for interested researchers.","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123858410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eckert, P. Meaning and Linguistic Variation: The Third Wave in Sociolinguistics","authors":"Mayowa Akinlotan","doi":"10.1558/jrds.38313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.38313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127007094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adjusting Regression Models for Overfitting in Second Language Research","authors":"Phillip Hamrick","doi":"10.1558/jrds.38374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.38374","url":null,"abstract":"Regression modeling is an increasingly important quantitative tool for second language (L2) research. While superior in many ways to more traditional methods, such as ANOVA, regression modeling, like all procedures, still has limitations, ranging from small sample sizes to a lack of screening for outliers and influential data points (Plonsky and Ghanbar, 2018). Since these limitations are common features in L2 research, this raises concerns that existing studies using regression may overfit the data, perhaps inflating effect size estimates. These issues can be partially alleviated via robust statistics, such as validation. This paper provides L2 researchers with an overview of these issues and an instructive look at one robust validation method: bootstrapping.","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123351891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William J. Boone, John R. Staver and Melissa S. Yale. Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences","authors":"Chao Han","doi":"10.1558/jrds.37535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.37535","url":null,"abstract":"William J. Boone, John R. Staver and Melissa S. Yale. Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences. The Netherlands: Springer, 2014. xvi+482 pp. ISBN 978-94-007-6856-7.","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125565693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Discriminatory Power of Lexical Context for Alternations: An Information-theoretic Exploration","authors":"S. Gries","doi":"10.1558/jrds.38227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.38227","url":null,"abstract":"This paper makes a very exploratory, tentative, and thinking-aloud kind of suggestion for the corpus-based analysis of alternation data. I start from the observation that studies of alternations/choices in particular in corpus linguistics have become increasingly sophisticated in terms of the statistical methods they employ and the number of predictors they involve. While the predictors employed come from many different levels of linguistic analysis – phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, prag-matics/discoursal, textual, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and others – they are usually contextual in nature, meaning they characterize the context of the choice the language user needs to make or has just made. However, one aspect of the context seems to be crucially underutilized when it comes to modeling speakers’ choices: the lexical context. In this paper, I build on recent work in computational psycholinguis-tics to: (a) define a lexical-distribution prototype of each of the (typically, but not necessarily, two) alternants of an alternation; and (b) compute the degree to which each instance of the alternation in question diverges from each of the prototypes. Then, (c) the values that all choices score on the divergences from each of the prototypes are entered as predictors to all others in statistical models to, minimally, serve as a variable that controls for whatever information is contained in the lexical context of an instance of speaker’s choice. I exemplify the approach and its sometimes amazing predictive power on the basis of a choice between near synonyms, two morphosyn-tactic alternations (preposition stranding vs. pied-piping and of-vs. s genitives), and a distinction between the functions of well","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134051731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the Production of Pronominal Constructions in Spanish in a Learner Corpus","authors":"Ana Fernández-Montraveta, G. Vázquez","doi":"10.1558/jrds.39063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.39063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"23 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120867716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joonas Kesäniemi, Turo Vartiainen, Tanja Säily, T. Nevalainen
{"title":"Exploring Meta-analysis for Historical Corpus Linguistics Based on Linked Data","authors":"Joonas Kesäniemi, Turo Vartiainen, Tanja Säily, T. Nevalainen","doi":"10.1558/JRDS.36709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRDS.36709","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical work on English historical corpus linguistics is plentiful but fragmented, and some of it is hard to come by. This paper proposes a solution for making it more accessible and reusable for meta-analysis. We present an online Language Change Database (LCD), which provides comparative, real-time baseline data from earlier corpus-based studies. LCD entries summarize the findings and include numerical data from the articles. We discuss the LCD from the perspective of database design and linked data management. Furthermore, we illustrate the reuse of LCD data through a meta-analysis of the history of English connectives. For this purpose, we have developed an application called the LCD Aggregated Data Analysis workbench (LADA). We show how researchers can use LADA to filter, refine and visualize LCD data. Thus we are paving the way for a future where both research results and research data are regularly available for verification, validation and re-use.","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127026875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polysemy and word frequency: A replication","authors":"Koenraad Kuiper, R. Fromont, D. Gerhard","doi":"10.1558/JRDS.33751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRDS.33751","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133311434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Copula + Adjective: An a-posteriori power analysis for the generalizability of results","authors":"J. Aguilar-Sánchez","doi":"10.1558/JRDS.33845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRDS.33845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230971,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127154352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}