The making of a BNC customised spoken corpus for comparative purposes

Corpora

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-188

  Lam, Phoenix ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 85055405913     PISSN: 17495032     EISSN: 17551676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E174950320900029X     Document Type: Article

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