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Through children’s eyes?: corpus evidence of the features of children’s literature

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Through children’s eyes? corpus evidence of the features of children’s literature. / Thompson, Paul; Sealey, Alison.
In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 12, No. 1, 01.01.2007, p. 1-23.

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Thompson, P & Sealey, A 2007, 'Through children’s eyes? corpus evidence of the features of children’s literature', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.1

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Thompson, P., & Sealey, A. (2007). Through children’s eyes? corpus evidence of the features of children’s literature. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 12(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.1

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Thompson P, Sealey A. Through children’s eyes? corpus evidence of the features of children’s literature. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2007 Jan 1;12(1):1-23. doi: 10.1075/ijcl.12.1

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Thompson, Paul ; Sealey, Alison. / Through children’s eyes? corpus evidence of the features of children’s literature. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2007 ; Vol. 12, No. 1. pp. 1-23.

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