Conducting qualitative research in applied linguistics seems to have some challenges. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the challenges of applied linguists across different research abilities to conduct qualitative studies. To that end, the biographical narratives, authored by 13 applied linguists, were collected. Then, the narratives were analyzed through qualitative data analysis princip...

This paper offers a gentle introduction to probability for linguists, assuming little or no background beyond what one learns in high school. The most important points that we emphasize are: the conceptual difference between probability and frequency, the use of maximizing probability of an observation by considering different models, and Kullback-Leibler divergence. Nous offrons une introducti...

My official rhetorical position in this paper, that of an ordinary linguist talking to computational linguists, is rapidly becoming obsolete. In a near future, there will be no non-obsolete ordinary linguists who are not also computational linguists, and no non-obsolete computational linguists who are not also ordinary linguists. So, in anticipation of the near future, I will talk as a linguist...