Table 1 Descriptive statistics on the corpus1.

From: The impact of research paradigms on encoding and decoding difficulties of applied linguistics articles

 

Quantitative

Qualitative

Total

1981–1985

2011–2015

1981–1985

2011–2015

No. of RAs

40

40

40

40

160

Total words

150,900

313,869

216,027

308,388

989,184

Mean word count

3773

7847

5401

7710

6406

Std. of word counts

1143

1559

1988

1356

2366

Total sentences

7002

13,342

8987

11,640

40,971

Mean sentence count

175.050

333.550

224.675

291.000

256.069

Std. of sentence counts

47.976

75.216

83.180

65.827

91.818

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