| Kommentar |
In the last two decades, linguistics has undergone a major ‘empirical turn’, to the effect that the collection and analysis of quantitative data has become increasingly important for linguistic research projects. This development goes hand in hand with a need for the sound statistical analysis of linguistic data, whether they are frequency data from corpora, questionnaire data from second language acquisition or experimental data from psycholinguistics or sociolinguistics. Accordingly, the major goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to typical data structures in linguistics and their statistical analysis. Based on a wide variety of authentic data sets, we will acquaint ourselves with basic principles of quantitative analysis (e.g. variables, coding, descriptive statistics), the general logic of inferential statistical testing and model building and, finally, with specific statistical models for commonly encountered data in linguistics (notably cross-tabulation and Chi-squared test, correlation and regression analysis (including ANOVA, linear and logistic regression)). We will be using the freely available and very powerful software R (see www.r-project.org) and the interface RStudio (see www.rstudio.com); all texts, materials and data sets will be provided in class. |
| Bemerkung |
Enrolments for particularly interested and advanced enough B.A. students of English (linguistics) as their major subject can be arranged with the instructor - please contact me via email during the semester break. Upon my consent, those students can obtain credits for the class as an ASQ module (BA.AA.ASQ03).
Lehramtskandidat(inn)en (JMG) können dieses Modul (inkl. Leistungsnachweis) belegen, müssen sich aber dessen bewusst sein, dass es nicht als Thema im Staatsexamen gewählt werden kann. Für das Zweitthema Ihrer Staatsexamensklausur oder mündlichen Prüfung müssten Sie also entweder ein weiteres Aufbaumodul II besuchen (ohne Leistungsnachweis) oder sich ein entsprechendes Thema vom Prüfungsflyer anhand der dort aufgeführten Lektüreliste selbständig erarbeiten. |
