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Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation

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Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation. / Hanks, Elizabeth; McEnery, Anthony; Egbert, Jesse et al.
In: Research in Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 12, No. 2, 31.10.2024, p. 24-44.

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Hanks, E, McEnery, A, Egbert, J, Larsson, T, Biber, D, Reppen, R, Baker, P, Brezina, V, Brookes, G, Clarke, I & Bottini, R 2024, 'Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation', Research in Corpus Linguistics, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 24-44. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.03

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Hanks, E., McEnery, A., Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Biber, D., Reppen, R., Baker, P., Brezina, V., Brookes, G., Clarke, I., & Bottini, R. (2024). Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(2), 24-44. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.03

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Hanks E, McEnery A, Egbert J, Larsson T, Biber D, Reppen R et al. Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation. Research in Corpus Linguistics. 2024 Oct 31;12(2):24-44. Epub 2024 Mar 3. doi: 10.32714/ricl.12.02.03

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Hanks, Elizabeth ; McEnery, Anthony ; Egbert, Jesse et al. / Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation : Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation. In: Research in Corpus Linguistics. 2024 ; Vol. 12, No. 2. pp. 24-44.

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