ABSTRACT
SR studies involve linguistic material such as responses to questionnaires, free associations of words and conversations. This fact has inevitably led to fierce debates over the relevance of statistical and theoretical methods used to treat such data. The disputes are, of course, all the more heated as they concern discourses culled from conversations, for instance, and we are dealing here not only with semantic indicators but also with syntactic structures. We are talking about material whose treatment does not preclude this kind of debate.
