Using regressions to explore deviations between corpus data and a standard/target: Two suggestions

Corpora

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 109-136

  Gries, Stefan Th ^a   Deshors, Sandra C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Corpus based multifactorial methods; English; French; IL; Interlanguage; May and can; Regression modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905461721     PISSN: 17495032     EISSN: 17551676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/cor.2014.0053     Document Type: Article

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