STATISTICS IN LINGUISTIC STUDIES
語言學與統計
Spring 2008 Thursday 9:10-12:00 文學院413
* * * UPDATED 2008/5/1 * * *
Your friendly guide:
James Myers (麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: x31506
Email: Lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw
WWW: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/
Office hours: Wednesday 3-5 pm, or by appointment
Goals:
You will learn basic statistical concepts and techniques, with lots of applications to the analysis of linguistic data from phonetics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition, as well as grammar research. This is intended to be a basic-level course (more advanced topics will be saved for another class).
Textbook:
Gravetter, Frederick J., & Wallnau, Larry B. (2006). Statistics for the behavioral sciences (7th edition). Wadsworth Publishing. [G&W]
Grading:
30% Take-home test 1 (due 4/17)
30% Take-home test 2 (due * 5/22 * )
40% Take-home test 3 (due 6/19)
This class will have weekly homeworks, but I won't grade them. Instead, we will discuss them together in class. I know that you are motivated to do the homework, though, because you want to learn something. Right?
Since I do have to give you grades, I'll also give you tests. These will cover the topics we have discussed since the previous test (except the third one, which will be a bit more comprehensive). You take them home one week and hand them in the following week. However, since they are tests, you should not discuss the questions with anyone (unlike my usual principle for homework).
Schedule
"*" marks when take-home tests are due
|
Week |
Topics |
Readings in G&W |
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2/21 |
Why would linguists ever need statistics? |
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2/28 |
NO CLASS [228] |
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3/6 |
Science, quantification, and software |
Chs. 1-2 |
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3/13 |
Averages and variability |
Chs. 3-4 |
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3/20 |
z Scores |
Ch. 5 |
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3/27 |
Probability and samples |
Chs. 6-7 |
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4/3 |
NO CLASS [spring break] |
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4/10 |
Hypothesis testing |
Ch. 8 |
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*4/17 |
Introduction to t tests |
Ch. 9 |
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4/24 |
More about t tests |
Chs. 10-11 |
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5/1 |
Estimation |
Ch. 12 |
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5/8 |
Introduction to ANOVA |
Ch. 13 |
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5/15 |
More about ANOVA |
Chs. 14-15 |
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*5/22 |
Correlation and regression |
Chs. 16-17 |
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5/29 |
Chi-square and binomial tests |
Chs. 18-19 |
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6/5 |
Ordinal data |
Ch. 20 |
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6/12 |
Review |
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*6/19 |
NO CLASS [the semester's over already!] |
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Other statistics resources (in the library, the bookstore, and/or my office):
王文中 (2004)。統計學與Excel資料分析之實習應用（第五版）。台北：博碩。
林真真 (2007)。 統計分析與應用手冊：使用 R 軟體。文魁資訊。
Brown, J. D. (1988). Understanding research in second language acquisition: A teacher's guide to statistics and research design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Crawley, M. J. (2005). Statistics: An introduction using R. Wiley.
Dalgaard, P. (2002). Introductory statistics with R. Springer.
Gonick, L., & Smith, W. (1993). The cartoon guide to statistics. Harper Perennial. [鄭惟厚譯2003看漫畫,學統計.天下遠見.]
Hatch, E. and Lazaraton, A. (1991). The research manual: Design and statistics for applied linguistics. Newbury House Publishers.
Hinkle, D. E., Wiersma, W., & Jurs, S. G. (1982). Basic Behavioral Statistics. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Jaisingh, L. (2000). Statistics for the utterly confused. McGraw-Hill.
Johnson, K. (2008). Quantitative methods in linguistics. Blackwell.
Manning, C., and Schütze, H. (1999). Foundations of statistical natural language processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Porkess, R. (1995). 統計學辭典。貓頭鷹出版社。
Sirkin, R. M. (1995). Statistics for the social sciences. SAGE Publications.
Vernoy, M., & Kyle, D. J. (2002). Behavioral statistics in action. McGraw-Hill.
Woods, A., Fletcher, P., & Hughes, A. (1986) Statistics in language studies. Cambridge University Press.