This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies.The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast:including,for example,language acquisition,language variation and many aspects of applied linguistics,The aubhors give a wide variety of linguixtic examples to demonstrate the use of statistics in summarising data in the most appropriate way,and then making helpful inferences form the processed information. Students and resesarchers in many fields of linguistics will find this book an invaluable introduction to the use of statistics,and a practical text tor the development of skils in the application of statistics.