Much statistical analysis of psycholinguistic data is now being done with so-called mixed-
effects regression models. This development was spearheaded by a few highly influential …

This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National
Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) and points the way forward toward a more informed …

We advance theory formation in cognitive sociolinguistics by exploring the extent to which
language users' probabilistic grammar varies regionally. For this purpose, we investigate the …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

Over the past 10 years, Cognitive Linguistics has taken a quantitative turn. Yet, concerns
have been raised that this preoccupation with quantification and modelling may not bring us …

The paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics.
Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

Recent evidence suggests that probabilistic grammars may be modulated by communication
mode and genre. Accordingly, the question arises how complex language users' lectal …

Usage-based linguistics abounds with studies that use statistical classification models to
analyze either textual corpus data or behavioral experimental data. Yet, before we can draw …

This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by
adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors …