Modelling linguistic gradience

Studies in Language

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-49

  Aarts, Bas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1075/sl.28.1.02aar     Document Type: Article

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