Assessing frequency changes in multistage diachronic corpora: Applications for historical corpus linguistics and the study of language acquisition

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 385-401

  Hilpert, Martin ^a   Gries, Stefan Th ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 71049179348     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqn012     Document Type: Article

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