Against statistical significance testing in corpus linguistics
- In the first volume of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Gries (2005. Null-hypothesis significance testing of word frequencies: A follow-up on Kilgarriff. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1(2). doi:10.1515/cllt.2005.1.2.277. http://www.degruyter.com/view//cllt.2005.1.issue-2/cllt.2005.1.2.277/cllt.2005.1.2.277.xml: 285) asked whether corpus linguists should abandon null-hypothesis significance testing. In this paper, I want to revive this discussion by defending the argument that the assumptions that allow inferences about a given population – in this case about the studied languages – based on results observed in a sample – in this case a collection of naturally occurring language data – are not fulfilled. As a consequence, corpus linguists should indeed abandon null-hypothesis significance testing.
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| Author: | Alexander KoplenigORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-93067 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2016-0036 |
| ISSN: | 1613-7027 |
| Parent Title (English): | Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory |
| Publisher: | de Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/10/10 |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | corpus linguistic methodology; null-hypothesis testing; quantitative approaches; representativeness; statistical significance |
| GND Keyword: | Korpus <Linguistik>; Sprachstatistik; Statistischer Test |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 321 |
| Last Page: | 346 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |