Quantitative Approaches to Universality and Individuality in Language - Hardcover

by Makoto Yamazaki (Editor), Haruko Sanada (Editor), Reinhard Köhler (Editor)

Founding Editor: Gabriel Altmann

The series Quantitative Linguistics publishes books on all aspects of quantitative methods and models in linguistics, text analysis and related research fields. Specifically, the scope of the series covers the whole spectrum of theoretical and empirical research, ultimately striving for an exact mathematical formulation and empirical testing of hypotheses: observation and description of linguistic data, application of methods and models, discussion of methodological and epistemological issues, modelling of language and text phenomena.

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Quantitative linguistic research reveals fascinating patterns in contemporary and historical linguistic data. The book offers insights from a broad range of languages, including Japanese, Slovene and Catalan. The reader is convinced that statistic empirical analysis - and increasingly also machine learning and big data - should be an essential part of any serious linguistic enquiry.

Author Biography

Makoto Yamazaki, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan; Haruko Sanada, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan; Reinhard Köhler, Prof. Emeritus University Trier, Germany; Sheila Embleton, York University, Toronto, Canada; Relja Vulanovic, Kent State University at Stark Ohio, USA; Eric S. Wheeler, York University, Toronto, Canada.