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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
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):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International