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1、MakingstatisticclaimsCorpusLinguisticsRichardXiaolancsxiaoz@googlemail.comUpdateonassignmentsDeadlineforsubmission(emailsubmission)TBATheHarvardreferencingstyleAssignmentACorpusstudy:introduction;synopsis/overview,criticalreviewofdata,methodofanalysis,co
2、nclusionetc;conclusions,bibliographyCL2005:http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/pclc/index.shtmlCL2007:http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference/proceedings.shtmlUCCTS2008:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/corpus/UCCTS2008Proceedings/UCCTS2010:http://www.lancs.
3、ac.uk/fass/projects/corpus/UCCTS2010Proceedings/Corpustool:Introduction;descriptionofthetool,itsmainfeaturesandfunctions;yourcriticalevaluationofthetool:howwellitdoesthejobsitissupposedtodo;userinterface,powerfulness,etc;conclusions;bibliographyAssignmen
4、tBIntroduction;literaturereview;methodology;resultsanddiscussions;conclusions;bibliographyOptionB:A3,500-wordessay,similartoAssignmentBOutlineofthesessionLectureRawandnormalisedfrequencyDescriptivestatistics(mean,mode,media,measureofdispersion)Inferentia
5、lstatistics(chisquared,LL,Fisher’sExacttests)CollocationstatisticsLabUCRELonlineLLcalculatorXu’sLLcalculatorSPSSQuantitativeanalysisCorpusanalysisisbothqualitativeandquantitativeOneoftheadvantagesofcorporaisthattheycanreadilyprovidequantitativedatawhichi
6、ntuitionscannotprovidereliably“Theuseofquantificationincorpuslinguisticstypicallygoeswellbeyondsimplecounting”(McEneryandWilson2001:81)Whatcanwedowiththosenumbersandcounts?RawfrequencyThearithmeticcountofthenumberoflinguisticfeature(aword,astructureetc)T
7、hemostdirectquantitativedataprovidedbyacorpusFrequencyitselfdoesNOTtellyoumuchintermsofthevalidityofahypothesisThereare250instancesofthef**kswearwordinthespokenBNC,sowhat?Doesthismeanthatpeopleswearfrequently–orinfrequently–whentheyspeak?Normalizedfreque
8、ncy…inrelationtowhat?CorpusanalysisisinherentlycomparativeThereare250instancesoftheswearwordinthespokenBNCand500instancesinthewrittenBNCDopeoplesweartwiceasofteninwritingasinspeech?RememberthewrittenBNCis9timesaslargeasthe
