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Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English?

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Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English? / Potts, Amanda; Baker, Paul.
In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2012, p. 295-324.

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Potts, A & Baker, P 2012, 'Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English?', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 295-324. <http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijcl.17.3.01pot/details>

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Potts, A., & Baker, P. (2012). Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17(3), 295-324. http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijcl.17.3.01pot/details

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Potts A, Baker P. Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2012;17(3):295-324.

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Potts, Amanda ; Baker, Paul. / Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English?. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 2012 ; Vol. 17, No. 3. pp. 295-324.

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