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Guidelines for normalising early modern English corpora: decisions and justifications

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Guidelines for normalising early modern English corpora: decisions and justifications. / Archer, Dawn; Kytö, Merja; Baron, Alistair et al.
In: ICAME Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, 01.03.2015, p. 5-24.

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Archer, D, Kytö, M, Baron, A & Rayson, PE 2015, 'Guidelines for normalising early modern English corpora: decisions and justifications', ICAME Journal, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1515/icame-2015-0001

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Archer, D., Kytö, M., Baron, A., & Rayson, P. E. (2015). Guidelines for normalising early modern English corpora: decisions and justifications. ICAME Journal, 39(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1515/icame-2015-0001

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Archer D, Kytö M, Baron A, Rayson PE. Guidelines for normalising early modern English corpora: decisions and justifications. ICAME Journal. 2015 Mar 1;39(1):5-24. doi: 10.1515/icame-2015-0001

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Archer, Dawn ; Kytö, Merja ; Baron, Alistair et al. / Guidelines for normalising early modern English corpora : decisions and justifications. In: ICAME Journal. 2015 ; Vol. 39, No. 1. pp. 5-24.

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