Stefan Thomas Gries

About

Stefan Thomas Gries is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His areas of specialization include quantitative corpus linguistics, statistical and computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and first and second language acquisition. He is involved in research that applies quantitative methods to linguistic data, contributing to the understanding of language learning and use through empirical and computational approaches. His work integrates insights from cognitive linguistics and employs statistical techniques to analyze language patterns, advancing the field of applied linguistics and language acquisition studies.

Research topics

• Linguistics
• Computer science
• Natural language processing
• Artificial intelligence
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Statistics for Linguistics with R : A Practical Introduction

  2021-05-10 · 233 citations

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  This is the third, newly revised and extended edition of this successful book (that has already been translated into three languages). Like the previous editions, it is entirely based on the programming language and environment R and is still thoroughly hands-on (with thousands of lines of heavily annotated code for all computations and plots). However, this edition has been updated based on many workshops/bootcamps taught by the author all over the world for the past few years: This edition has…

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• Statistics for Linguistics with R

  2021-05-06 · 118 citations

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  This is the third, newly revised and extended edition of this successful book (that has already been translated into three languages). Like the previous editions, it is entirely based on the programming language and environment R and is still thoroughly hands-on (with thousands of lines of heavily annotated code for all computations and plots). However, this edition has been updated based on many workshops/bootcamps taught by the author all over the world for the past few years: This edition has…

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• Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness

  Studies in corpus linguistics · 2024-06-19 · 15 citations

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  This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then, the book makes three main proposals: First, that many measures of dispersion, association, and keyness are too confounded with frequency and how to 'take frequency out of them' to obtain conceptually cleaner and more in…

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• Corrections to Nelson (2023): <i>DP</i> _norm and <i>D</i> _KLnorm are Not Wrong on Pi at All

  Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 2024-01-02 · 13 citations

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  This paper mainly discusses two computational errors in Nelson (2023), which demonstrate that part of his conclusions regarding two dispersion measures are flawed.

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• If Not For-If It Weren’t/Wasn’t For Counterfactual Constructions: A Multivariate Extension of Collostructional Analysis

  Cognitive Semantics · 2024-09-30 · 9 citations

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  Abstract The present paper investigates if not for - if it weren’t/wasn’t for constructions in American English based on the analysis of more than 2,100 constructions extracted from The Corpus of Contemporary American English ( coca ). In analyzing these constructions, we focus on significant interdependencies between the slots of the protasis (i.e. animacy of the referent of the np ) and apodosis (i.e. semantics of the verb lemma) and how these cross-clausal associations interact with other lin…

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Frequent coauthors

• Stefanie Wulff

  UiT The Arctic University of Norway

  109 shared

• Anatol Stefanowitsch

  75 shared

• Martin Hilpert

  University of Neuchâtel

  71 shared

• Santa Barbara

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  67 shared

• Susanne Flach

  Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

  66 shared

• Anna Birmingham

  University of Florida

  66 shared

• Magali Mccauley

  Baidu (China)

  66 shared

• Neuchâtel Keller

  University of Florida

  62 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Department of British and American Studies

  Universität Hamburg

  2000

• M.A., Department of British and American Studies

  Universität Hamburg

  1998

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