Investigating macroscopic textual variation through multifeature/multidimensional analyses

Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 337-360

  Biber, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84928223156     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: 1613396X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ling.1985.23.2.337     Document Type: Article

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