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The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis. / Gabrielatos, Costas; McEnery, Tony; Diggle, Peter et al.
In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 17, No. 2, 01.01.2012, p. 151-175.

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Gabrielatos, C, McEnery, T, Diggle, P, Baker, P & ESRC (Funder) 2012, 'The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.17.2.01gab

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Gabrielatos, C., McEnery, T., Diggle, P., Baker, P., & ESRC (Funder) (2012). The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17(2), 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.17.2.01gab

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Gabrielatos C, McEnery T, Diggle P, Baker P, ESRC (Funder). The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2012 Jan 1;17(2):151-175. doi: 10.1075/ijcl.17.2.01gab

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Gabrielatos, Costas ; McEnery, Tony ; Diggle, Peter et al. / The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2012 ; Vol. 17, No. 2. pp. 151-175.

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