Language is never, ever, ever, random

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-276

  Kilgarriff, Adam ^a  

^a LEXICAL COMPUTING LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypothesis testing; Language corpora; Randomness assumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248716982     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cllt.2005.1.2.263     Document Type: Article

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