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20312
World Ranking
730
National Ranking
345

Overview

Stefan Th. Gries is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Computer Science, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. Subfields of study include Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas such as Natural Language Processing Techniques, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation, Second Language Acquisition and Learning, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, and Authorship Attribution and Profiling.

Frequent coauthors include Stefanie Wulff, Santa Barbara, Anatol Stefanowitsch, Susanne Flach, and Martin Hilpert.

Stefan Th. Gries has published extensively in various venues, most frequently in:

  • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
  • Psychotherapeut
  • Research in Corpus Linguistics

Recent papers by Gries include:

  • "A new approach to (key) keywords analysis: Using frequency, and now also dispersion" (2021, Research in Corpus Linguistics)
  • "(Generalized Linear) Mixed-Effects Modeling: A Learner Corpus Example" (2021, Language Learning)
  • "What do (some of) our association measures measure (most)? Association?" (2021, Journal of Second Language Studies)
  • "What do (most of) our dispersion measures measure (most)? Dispersion?" (2021, Journal of Second Language Studies)
  • "Examining individual variation in learner production data: A few programmatic pointers for corpus-based analyses using the example of adverbial clause ordering" (2020, Applied Psycholinguistics)

Gries has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • "Gender in World Englishes," published by Cambridge University Press in 2020
  • "Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness," published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in 2024

Best Publications

  • Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions

    Anatol Stefanowitsch;Stefan Th. Gries

  • Extending collostructional analysis: A corpus-based perspective on `alternations'

    Stefan Th. Gries;Anatol Stefanowitsch

  • Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy

    Anatol Stefanowitsch;Stefan Thomas Gries

  • Syntactic priming: a corpus-based approach.

    Stefan Th. Gries

  • Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics: A Study of Particle Placement

    Stefan Thomas Gries

  • Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R : A Practical Introduction

    Stefan Thomas Gries

  • Dispersions and adjusted frequencies in corpora

    Stefan Th. Gries

  • 50-something years of work on collocations: What is or should be next …

    Stefan Th. Gries

  • Statistics for Linguistics with R

    Stefan Th. Gries

  • 1. Phraseology and linguistic theory: A brief survey

    Stefan Th. Gries

  • Corpora in cognitive linguistics : corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis

    Stefan Thomas Gries;Anatol Stefanowitsch

  • Converging evidence: Bringing together experimental and corpus data on the association of verbs and constructions

    Stefan Th. Gries;Beate Hampe;Doris Schönefeld

  • Statistics for Linguistics with R : A Practical Introduction

    Stefan Thomas Gries

  • Corpus-based methods and cognitive semantics: The many senses of to run

    Stefan Th. Gries

  • Corpora and experimental methods: A state-of-the-art review

    Gaëtanelle Gilquin;Stefan Th. Gries

  • The most under-used statistical method in corpus linguistics: multi-level (and mixed-effects) models

    Stefan Th. Gries

  • Ways of trying in Russian: clustering behavioral profiles

    Dagmar Divjak;Stefan Th Gries

  • Do foreign language learners also have constructions

    Stefan Th. Gries;Stefanie Wulff

  • Towards a corpus-based identification of prototypical instances of constructions

    Stefan Th. Gries

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  • Behavioral profiles: A corpus-based approach to cognitive semantic analysis

    Stefan Th. Gries;Dagmar Divjak

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow
Alex Martin
Alex Martin National Institutes of Health
Xiaoping Hu
Xiaoping Hu University of California, Riverside
Nick C. Ellis
Nick C. Ellis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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