Jonathan Dunn

To appear in the Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Bloomsbury)

Abstract. This chapter surveys what we can learn about language and cognition through computational methods. Computational linguistics is, at its core, a methodology. This methodology is fundamentally corpus-based so that computation is most informative when combined with records of past production processes. Given the increased attention computational methods have received in recent years, it is worth exploring more precisely the major families of computational experiments and what they have helped us learn about language and cognition.