How random is a corpus? The library metaphor

Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-190

  Evert, Stefan ^a  

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EID: 60950417505     PISSN: 00442305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/zaa-2006-0208     Document Type: Article

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