Chapter published in:
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 8] 2018
► pp. 61–74

Chapter 5
Research methods

Periodization and statistical techniques

Article outline
  • 5.1Quantifying change
    • 5.1.1Need for multiple methods
    • 5.1.2Periodizing processes of change
  • 5.2Basic methods for estimating frequencies
  • 5.3Methods for studying changes lacking a variable
    • 5.3.1Introduction
    • 5.3.2Method 1: accumulation curves and permutation testing
    • 5.3.3Method 2: beanplots and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test
    • 5.3.4Addendum: multiple hypothesis testing
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
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