Advanced Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics Research

In line with the quantitative turn in Cognitive Linguistics, this paper introduces a series of advanced quantitative methods with ample examples.It illustrates multivariate methods of exploratory analysis (e.g.cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling analysis), confirmatory analysis (e.g.logistic regression model, mixed-effects regression model) and machine learning model (e.g.random forest, nave discriminative learning).Moreover, this paper briefly introduces statistical packages of those methods in the statistical environment R.