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/j/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.
Author: | Alexander KoplenigORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-61995 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2016-0036 |
ISSN: | 1613-7027 (Print) |
ISSN: | 1613-7035 (Online) |
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: | 2017 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/06/07 |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
Research ressource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZQPWCI |
Tag: | corpus linguistic methodology; null-hypothesis testing; quantitative approaches; representativeness |
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. |
Note: | Zitierfähige gedruckte Version des Artikels |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Quantitative Linguistik |
Program areas: | Lexik |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |