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2 41 22_Re: statistical method13_Monica Devens17_mdevens@yahoo.com37_Sat, 20 May 2000 10:53:35 -0700 (PDT)528_us-ascii --- RUTHANNA BARNETT <r.barnett@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > >From the little experience i have in these areas, i would say that the > beauty of the method is the extremely surprising 'facts' or tendencies > that are thus discovered. So, far from 'bolstering' hypotheses that we > form from what we think we already know about language, these methods > are causing us to reanalyse all kinds of hypotheses that have been made > (wrongly) on the basis of intuition - a very interesting new area for > linguistic study. [...]
44 57 11_unsubscribe7_hainsof24_hainsof@netvision.net.il31_Sat, 20 May 2000 21:40:55 +0200688_iso-8859-1 <br><br>-----Original Message----- From: Monica Devens <mdevens@yahoo.com> To: Discussion of Hebrew Grammar and Etymology <heblang@shamash.org> Date: 20 May 2000 19:53 Subject: Re: statistical method<br><br><br><br>>--- RUTHANNA BARNETT <r.barnett@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: >> >From the little experience i have in these areas, i would say that the >> beauty of the method is the extremely surprising 'facts' or tendencies >> that are thus discovered. So, far from 'bolstering' hypotheses that we >> form from what we think we already know about language, these methods >> are causing us to reanalyse all kinds of hypotheses that have been made >> (wrongly) on the basis of [...]