LING 172 / PSYC 215

Datasets used in Fall 2021 for LING 172.

Class survey data

Data from the class survey can be downloaded at: https://kathrynschuler.com/ling172/datasets/class-survey-data.csv or loaded directly into r with:

data <- read.csv('https://kathrynschuler.com/ling172/datasets/class-survey-data.csv')

Wordbank data

Cross-linguistic trajectories of two words: ball and dog from wordbank.stanford.edu. Download the dataset at: https://kathrynschuler.com/ling172/datasets/crosslinguistic-dog-ball.csv or load directly into r with:

data <- read.csv('https://kathrynschuler.com/ling172/datasets/crosslinguistic-dog-ball.csv')

Language diversity data

A long format dataset that is most useful in wide format. Data taken from Appendix 1 in: Nettle, D. (1998). Explaining Global Patterns of Language Diversity. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 17, 354–374.

Nettle, D. (1998). Explaining Global Patterns of Language Diversity. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 17, 354–374.

To use this dataset, you’ll need the jvcasillas/untidydata package:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jvcasillas/untidydata")

Then call

language_diversity