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How real is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the new normal in linguistics

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|May 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2024-0001 | Journal eISSN: 1502-5462 | Journal ISSN: 0801-5775
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 22
Submitted on: Aug 6, 2023
Accepted on: Jan 19, 2024
Published on: May 28, 2024
Published by: Uppsala University, Department of English
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