Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions as well as introductory examples of how to use R for such research.
Stefan Th. Gries, Ph.D. (2000), University of Hamburg, is Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara and Chair of English Linguistics at JLU Giessen. He has published widely on quantitative corpus linguistics and cognitive/usage-based linguistics.