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AusBrown: A new diachronic corpus of Australian English

By: Peter Collins and  Xinyue Yao  
Open Access
|Apr 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2019-0001 | Journal eISSN: 1502-5462 | Journal ISSN: 0801-5775
Language: English
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Published on: Apr 7, 2019
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