Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes

Computing and Language Variation: A Special Issue of International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 261-278

  Maguire, Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; LEXICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIMITED DATA SETS; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

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