Using recurrent phrases as text-type discriminators: A quantitative method and some findings

Functions of Language

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-104

  Stubbs, Michael ^a   Barth, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

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EID: 21644467906     PISSN: 0929998X     EISSN: 15699765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/fol.10.1.04stu     Document Type: Article

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