Statistics for Corpus Linguistics [antikvár]

Acknowledgements I would like to thank the editors,Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson, for their support and encouragement throughout the production of this book. I would also like to thank Tony McEnery for his valuable comments on an early draft of this book. Appendices 1 to 9, which originally appeared in Neave, H. R., Statistics Tables for Mathematicians, Engineers, Economists and the Behavioural and Management Sciences, George AUen and Unwin, 1978, are reprinted by permission of Routledge. Prof. Chris Buder has kindly allowed me to reproduce them in the format in which they appear in his book Statistics in Linguistics. Table 2.2, which originally appeared as Table 6.1 of Church, K., GaIe,W., Hanks, P. and Hindle, D., 'Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis', in Zernik, U. (ed.). Lexical Acquisition, Exploiting On-Line Resources to Build a Lexicon, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1992, is reprinted by permission of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Figure 3.1 and Tables 3.4,3.5 and 3.6, which originally appeared on pp. 71, 70, 58 and 72 respectively of Horváth, B. M., Variation in Australian English, Cambridge University Press, 1985, are reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press. Table 3.7, which originally appeared in Section 5.1, p. 79 of Biber, D., Variation Across Speech and Writing, Cambridge University Press, 1988, is reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press. Table 3.12, which originally appeared on p. 122 of Atwell, A. and Elliott, S. 'Dealing with Ill-Formed English Text', in Garside, R., Leech, G. and Sampson, G. (eds), Tlte Computational Analysis of English: A Corpus-Based Approach, Longman, London and New York, 1987, is reprinted by permission of Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. Table 4.5, which originally appeared as Table 9.1 on p. 129 of Renouf, A. and Sinclair, J. M., 'Collocational Frameworks in English', in Aijmer, K. and Altenberg, B. (eds), English Corpus Linguistics, Longman, London and New York,