Corpus Methods

Corpus

Corpus linguistics is a rapidly growing methodology that uses the statistical analysis of large collections of written or spoken data (corpora) to investigate linguistic phenomena.

 

 

 

Personnel

Lukas Denk

Visiting Lecturer

Linguistic Typology
Morphology
Linguistic Complexity
Navajo and less-documented languages

Jon Forrest

Assistant Professor

Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change, Southern US Englishes, African American Language, Phonetics, Phonology

John Hale

Arch Professor in World Languages and Cultures

Computational linguistics, Cognitive science

Lewis C. (Chad) Howe

Professor

Some Current Projects:

Grammaticalization and language change in Romance Languages Language variation and change in social media Incipient Language Shift in a Southern Latino Community Indigenous Languages in Latin America: Contact, Shift, and Maintenance

William Kretzschmar

Willson Professor in Humanities, Dept. of English

Language variation, Corpus linguistics, American English

Keith Langston

University Professor, Department Head, Undergraduate Coordinator

Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia.

Margaret E. L. Renwick

Associate Professor

Phonetics, Phonology, Laboratory Phonology, Speech Acoustics, Romance Languages, English

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