Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research
Pascual Cantos Gómez · 2011
Pascual Cantos gómez’s book seems to have originated from his observation of the increasingly important role of quantitative approaches in language studies. This direction is clearly a strength in its onset, as the book aims to add clarity and specificity to the Humanities and its empirical scope. Early references (gries, 1970) may have been more interested in explaining the theory behind the data rather than developing different examples, whereas more recent references (Bachman, 2004) may have missed an explicit and direct approach to the many-fold possible perspectives arising in language investigation. A second strong point in this publication is its affordance for non-experts as a descriptive resource with illustrations of statistics adapted to actual research concerns. The book should enable language researchers to induce decision-making for statistical technique applications. Quantitative analyses have become a must in many projects and case studies on language assessment, genre, discourse studies, and foreign language teaching and