Do we need statistics when we have linguistics?

Statistics is known to be a quantitative approach to research. However, most of the research done in the fields of language and linguistics is of a different kind, namely qualitative. Succinctly, qualitative analysis differs from quantitative analysis is that in the former no attempt is made to assi...

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Main Author: Pascual Cantos Gómez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2002-01-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502002000200003&lng=en&tlng=en