Language Sampling

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bakker, Dik ^a,b  

^a Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication   (Netherlands)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Diversity value; Language sample; Linguistic sampling; Sample sizes; Sampling strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871587303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199281251.013.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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