Are conference proceedings valued less than Q1 journal publications? Need advice.

Basically what the title says. I'm doing my PhD in Linguistics. I have published my papers in 4 peer-reviewed conference proceedings so far (all of them are highly regarded international conferences in my field). Looking around, I understand that no matter how many conferences you attend, journal publications hold the most importance. Since it takes quite a long time to publish one article and I'm about to start the 4th year of PhD (ours is a 5-year course), should I stop running after conferences and focus on publishing an article or two?