Readability modelling and comparison of one and two parametric fit: A case study in Bangla

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-34

  Das, Sreerupa ^a   Roychoudhury, Rajkumar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

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EID: 43249161679     PISSN: 09296174     EISSN: 17445035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09296170500500843     Document Type: Article

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