A corpus based quantitative study on the change of TTR, word length and sentence length of the English language

Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text: Dedicated to Gabriel Altmann on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 123-130

  Fengxiang, Fan ^a  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 79959378749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110894219     Document Type: Chapter

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