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The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study

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The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study. / McEnery, A. M.; Xiao, R. Z.
LREC . 2004.

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McEnery, AM & Xiao, RZ 2004, The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study. in LREC . LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, 24/05/04.

APA

McEnery, A. M., & Xiao, R. Z. (2004). The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study. In LREC

Vancouver

McEnery AM, Xiao RZ. The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study. In LREC . 2004

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McEnery, A. M. ; Xiao, R. Z. / The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese : A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study. LREC . 2004.

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