Lexical distance in LAMSAS

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-357

  Nerbonne, John ^a   Kleiweg, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

American English; Dialect; Dialectology; Dialectometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844563567     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025042402655     Document Type: Article

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