Empirical Linguistics

Empirical Linguistics by Geoffrey Sampson

Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples ("corpora"). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as "Is there one English language or many Englishes?" and "Do different social groups use characteristically elaborated or restricted language codes?" Sampson shows readers how to use some of the new techniques for themselves, giving a step-by-step "recipe-book" method for applying a quantitative technique that was invented by Alan Turing in the World War II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park and has been rediscovered and widely applied in linguistics fifty years later.

"This is important and fruitful work...Sampson and his fellow knights are doing useful work."--The Times Higher Education Supplement

Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing at the University of Sussex.

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ISBN 13	9780826457943
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Titre	Empirical Linguistics
Auteur	Geoffrey Sampson
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Année de publication	2002-09-12
Nombre de pages	240
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