Significant or random?: A critical review of sociolinguistic generalisations based on large corpora
This article offers a critical review of a methodology often employed in corpusbased sociolinguistic studies which make use of aggregate data. This methodology relies on a general comparison of frequencies of a target linguistic variable in socially defined sub-corpora. The main issue with this proc...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2014
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