Lexical frequency profiles: From Monte Carlo to the real world: A response to Meara (2005)

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 582-588

  Laufer, Batia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 27944479067     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: 1477450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/ami029     Document Type: Review

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