Some Observations on Word Frequencies in Three Corpora of Present-Day English Texts

Johansson, Stig

doi:10.1075/itl.67-68.08joh

Article published In: ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 67/68 (1985) ► pp.117–126

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Some Observations on Word Frequencies in Three Corpora of Present-Day English Texts

Stig Johansson | University of Oslo

Published online: 1 January 1985

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