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The Unreality of Quantitative Figures.
Al-Amadidh, Darwish G. – 1988
Recently, a number of quantitative studies have explored systematic relationships between sociocultural organization and patterns of language use, based on the assumption that speech behavior reflects the basic categories of the community's social structure. Such systematic links were arrived at by correlating average group scores for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation