quantitative linguisticsEnglishOxford New American Dictionaryquantitative linguistics /ˈkwän(t)əˌtādiv liNGˈɡwistiks, ˈkwɑn(t)əˌteɪdɪv lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ ▸ plural noun [treated as singular] the comparative study of the frequency and distribution of words and syntactic structures in different texts.