A corpus-based lexical study on frequency and distribution of Coxhead's AWL word families in medical research articles (RAs)

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 502-514

  Chen, Qi ^a   Ge, Guang chun ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 34748835233     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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