New Book: ANALYZING LINGUISTIC VARIATION

[Christine Sosa]

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of:

ANALYZING LINGUISTIC VARIATION: STATISTICAL MODELS AND METHODS, John
C. Paolillo (Indiana University).;paper ISBN: 1-57586-276-X, $25.00,
cloth ISBN: 1-57586-275-1, $65.00, 280 pages. CSLI Publications 2002.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu.

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Book description:

David Sankoff's VARBRUL computer program is widely used in analyzing
linguistic variation in sociolinguistics, language acquisition,
discourse, and other areas of linguistics, yet researchers have had
to depend on hard-to-find publications and one-on-one training in
order to learn how to use the program. For the first time, this
comprehensive guide explains every aspect of this singularly useful
computer program, from its most basic statistical foundations, to
data collection, coding, and analysis techniques. This is written
with researchers and students in the field of linguistics in mind and
assumes no prior familiarity with statistics.
Statistical and methodological issues are illustrated with examples
of linguistic variation research, and their bearing on issues of
theoretical consequence is thoroughly discussed. All quantitative
areas of linguistics will benefit from this book's careful
presentation of VARBRUL analysis and its relation to other
statistical procedures used in the social sciences.

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