English letter frequencies and their applications: Part I

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 545-548

  Ridley, Dennis R ^a   Lively, B Malcolm ^a  

^a VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PERIODICITY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PERIODICITY;

EID: 0141611647     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.96.2.545     Document Type: Article

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