TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connor-Linton,Jeff
AU  - Amoroso,Luke Wander
TI  - Measured language: quantitative approaches to acquisition, assessment, and variation 
T2  - Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Series
SN  - 9781626160385
AV  - P126 .M39 2014eb
U1  - 410.72/7 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Washington, District of Columbia
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Versification
KW  - Computational linguistics
KW  - Linguistique
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - Méthodes statistiques
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - Linguistique informatique
KW  - computational linguistics
KW  - aat
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Historical & Comparative
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Sprachstatistik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Linguistik
KW  - Computerlinguistik
KW  - idszbzes
KW  - Quantitative methods
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Ubiquitous Oral versus Literate Dimension: A Survey of Multidimensional Studies; 2. When Ethnicity Isn't Just about Ethnicity; 3. Does Language Zipf Right Along? Investigating Robustness in the Latent Structure of Usage and Acquisition; 4. Subjectivity and Efficiency in Language Assessment: Explorations of a Compensatory Rating Approach; 5. Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The Case of Bima-Sumba; 6. Young Learners' Storytelling in Their First and Foreign Languages; 7. Measuring Quechua to Spanish Cross-Linguistic Influence; 8. Speedup versus Automatization: What Role Does Learner Proficiency Play?9. Frequency Effects, Learning Conditions, and the Development of Implicit and Explicit Lexical Knowledge; 10. The Differential Role of Language Analytic Ability in Two Distinct Learning Conditions; 11. U-Shaped Development: Definition, Exploration, and Falsifiable Hypotheses; 12. Using Simulated Speech to Assess Japanese Learner Oral Proficiency; 13. Keys to College: Tracking English Language Proficiency and IELTS Test Scores in an International Undergraduate Conditional Admission Program in the United States; 14. How Does Foreign Language Proficiency Change over Time? Results of Data Mining Official Test Records15. The Development of Complexity in a Learner Corpus of German; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
N2  - Measured Language: Quantitative Studies of Acquisition, Assessment, and Variation focuses on ways in which various aspects of language can be quantified and how measurement informs and advances our understanding of language. The metaphors and operationalizations of quantification serve as an important lingua franca for seemingly disparate areas of linguistic research, allowing methods and constructs to be translated from one area of linguistic investigation to another. Measured Language includes forms of measurement and quantitative analysis current in diverse areas of linguistic research from
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