The importance of sampling frames in representative historical corpora : a case study of Parisian theater

Cognitive linguistics makes specific claims about language use, and corpora are our most powerful tool to test those claims. Representative sampling (Laplace 1814) is a technique that allows us to study smaller, more manageable corpora, and generalize our results to a broader sampling frame. For a s...

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Main Author: Angus B. Grieve-Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2019-06-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/1671