Open AccessOver oorkonden en statistiek, diachronie en determinisme
Author(s) -
Pieter van Reenen
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
taal en tongval
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2215-1214
pISSN - 0039-8691
DOI - 10.5117/tet2009.2.vanr
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , exact test , test (biology) , history , genealogy , linguistics , sociology , geography , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , biology , physics , astrophysics , paleontology
This study discusses Versloot 2008, an important contribution to the study of language variation in older Frisian, based on charters and codices. Special attention is paid to (a) how theses charters and codices are used by Versloot in order to obtain linguistic results, and (b) to the statistical treatment of the data. It is argued that with respect to 2 x 2 tables the Fisher Exact test one-tail should be preferred to X2.