Mixed-Effects Regression Models in Linguistics

ISBN 10: 3319888501 / ISBN 13: 9783319888507

Published by Springer, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mixed-Effects Regression Models in Linguistics
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319888501
• ISBN 13: 9783319888507
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Illustrates the diversity of applications of mixed models now found in linguistics and applicable for other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences 
Uses unique, hands-on approach to demonstrate statistical method 
Significant, current linguistic research projects are used as case studies to teach particular applications of mixed effects models

About the Author

Dirk Speelman is associate professor at the department of linguistics at the KU Leuven. Dirk's main research interest lies in the fields of corpus linguistics, computational lexicology and variational linguistics in general. Much of his work focuses on methodology and on the application of statistical and other quantitative methods to the study of language. 

Kris Heylen is a research fellow at the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and research fellow at the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT, Leiden, The Netherlands). He specialises in the corpus-based, statistical modelling of lexical semantics and lexical variation. 

Dirk Geeraerts is professor of linguistics at the University of Leuven, where founded the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics. His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics and lexicology, with a specific descriptive interest in social variation, a strong methodological commitment to corpus analysis, and a theoretical background in Cognitive Linguistics.