Getting off the GoldVarb standard: Introducing Rbrul for mixed-effects variable rule analysis

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 359-383

  Johnson, Daniel Ezra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 59849115853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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