The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 447-464

  Davies, Mark ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78650384124     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqq018     Document Type: Article

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