LibGuides: Linguistics: Statistical Analysis

Statistical Methods for Linguistics

This section lists books on statistical methods in Linguistics. Books specifically on statistical analysis in Linguistics using the R programming environment are listed in the section below.

Statistics for Linguists by David Eddington
Call Number: Koerner P138.5 .E33 2015

ISBN: 9781443876384

Linguists with no background in statistics will find this book to be an accessible introduction to statistics. Concepts are explained in non-technical terms, and mathematical formulas are kept to a minimum. The book incorporates SPSS, which is a statistics package that incorporates a point and click interface rather than complex line-commands.
Statistics in Corpus Linguistics by Václav Brezina
Call Number: online

ISBN: 9781107125704

Do you use language corpora in your research or study, but find that you struggle with statistics? This practical introduction will equip you to understand the key principles of statistical thinking and apply these concepts to your own research, without the need for prior statistical knowledge.
Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research
Call Number: Koerner P123 .C28 2013

ISBN: 9781845534318

The aim of this book is to illustrate with numerous examples how quantitative methods can most fruitfully contribute to linguistic analysis and research. This book shows how quantitative methods and statistical techniques can supplement qualitative analyses of language. It attempts to present some mathematical and statistical properties of natural languages, and introduces some of the quantitative methods which are of the most value in working empirically with texts and corpora.

R Open Source Statistical Software

The open source software R is frequently used by linguistics for data analysis. Below are some books looking at the exploration and analysis of linguistic data using R software.

R software is open source and freely available for download for UNIX, Windows and MacOS platforms at The R Project for Statistical Computing site. You can also download RStudio, which includes a code editor, debugging & visualization tools.

Analyzing Linguistic Data : a practical introduction to statistics using R by R. H. Baayen
Call Number: online

Statistical analysis is a useful skill for linguists and psycholinguists, allowing them to understand the quantitative structure of their data. Designed for linguists with a non-mathematical background, it clearly introduces the basic principles and methods of statistical analysis, using 'R', the leading computational statistics programme.
Statistics for Linguistics with R by Stefan Gries
This book is an introduction to statistics for linguists using the open source software R. It is aimed at students and instructors/professors with little or no statistical background and is written in a non-technical and reader-friendly/accessible style.
How to Do Linguistics with R by Natalia Levshina
This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among linguists.
Corpus Linguistics and Statistics with R by Guillaume Desagulier
Call Number: online

The statistical methodology and R-based coding from this book teaches readers the basic and then more advanced skills to work with large data sets in their linguistics research and studies. Chapters cover topics including corpus processing, frequencing data, and clustering methods. Case studies illustrate each chapter with accompanying data sets, R code, and exercises for use by readers.
Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R (2nd ed.) by Stefan Gries
Call Number: online

Demonstrates how to process corpus-linguistic data with the open-source programming language and environment R. Geared in general towards linguists working with observational data (particularly corpus linguists), this book is extremely hands-on and leads the reader through dozens of small applications as well as larger case studies.
Statistics for Linguists : An Introduction Using R by Bodo Winter
Call Number: online

Publication Date: 2019

Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R is the first statistics textbook on linear models for linguistics. The book covers simple uses of linear models through generalized models to more advanced approaches, maintaining its focus on conceptual issues and avoiding excessive mathematical details.