While there exist several excellent hands-on workshops on statistics and language science, in the current summer school, we would like to cover aspects of the conceptualisation of a study, and the philosophy of science behind doing sound research, focusing on theory building, including `the theory crisis’, model testing and statistical analyses using Bayesian approaches. In this school, we will attempt to answer, among others, the following questions:
- How do we create a good experiment?
- How do we connect the theory to methods/experiments?
- What are the things we ought to care about when creating a psycholinguistic study?
- How do we test a model? (includes un update on influential models in language comprehension and production)
- What is Bayesian statistics and how does it differ from the frequentist approaches?
- What is a good design from a statistical point of view?
The workshop is suited for advanced students (MA, PhD candidates) and young researchers involved in doing psycholinguistics and experimental linguistics.
INVITED SPEAKERS: Klaus Oberauer, University of Zurich and Audrey Burki, University of Potsdam
To register for the course, please see the information under "Admission" on this course page.