Statistics in Corpus Linguistics

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Introduction: statistics meets corpus linguistics; 2. Vocabulary: frequency, dispersion and diversity; 3. Semantics and discourse: collocations, keywords and reliability of manual coding; 4. Lexico-grammar: from simple counts to complex models; 5. Register variation: correlation, clusters and factors; 6. Sociolinguistics and stylistics: individual and social variation; 7. Change over time: working diachronic data; 8. Bringing everything together: ten principles of statistical thinking, meta-analysis and effect sizes.