Reflecting on the quantitative turn in linguistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4786145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernd Kortmann (0000-0001-5262-9482, University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1207-1226 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2019-0046 |
| OpenAlex | W3195573486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 24 |
Linguistics, English linguistics in particular, has witnessed a remarkable quantitative turn since the 1990s and the early 2000s. It was a turn both in scale and in quality, a turn concerning the degree (including the degree of sophistication) to which quantitative empirical studies, statistical techniques, and statistical modelling have come to be used and determine linguistic research. Which role have corpus linguistics and probabilistic linguistics, including usage-based approaches, played in this development? Has this turn been to the detriment of qualitative methods, or even of linguistic theorizing in general? Has linguistics reached the point of a "quantitative crisis", or is it still a discipline characterized by a healthy equilibrium, if not mutual reinforcement, of quantitative and qualitative approaches? What are, or should be, major repercussions of the strong quantitative turn for the publication system of (English) linguistics? These are the major overarching questions underlying the reflections offered in this opinion paper
Applied linguistics · Clinical linguistics · Computational linguistics · Contrastive linguistics · Corpus linguistics · Linguistic turn · Linguistics · Point (geometry) · Quantitative analysis (chemistry) · Quantitative linguistics · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Theoretical linguistics · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
The morpho-syntax of Standard Scottish English
Democratization of Englishes
Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics
Investigating diachronic shifts within a domain of English modality
The Relationship between Production and Cognitive Processing of Liaison
Large corpora and large language models
Large language models as first-pass filters for corpus annotation
Alternation of must , have to , and need to in English as a lingua franca
Murded, varieerumine ja korpusandmed. Eitussõna paiknemine võru ja seto eituslausetes
Pathways of actualization across regional varieties and the real-time dynamics of syntactic change
Interpersonal distance, mouth sounds, and referentiality in child-dog play
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
The Quantitative Turn
Does frequency count? Parental input and the acquisition of vocabulary
The empirical trend
Quantifying the shift towards empirical methods
What corpus-based Cognitive Linguistics can and cannot expect from neurolinguistics
An evaluation of usage-based approaches to the modelling of sociophonetic variability
Frequency Effects in Language Processing
Methods of data collection in English empirical linguistics research
Introducing Registered Reports at Language Learning
Statistical Measures for Usage-Based Linguistics
The Editor's Department
Predicting syntax
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |