Measuring spoken language: A unit for all reasons

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 354-375

  Foster, Pauline ^a   Tonkyn, Alan ^a   Wigglesworth, Gillian ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/applin/21.3.354     Document Type: Article

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