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Designing and evaluating language corpora: A practical framework for corpus representativeness

edited by Egbert J, Biber D and Gray B, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 298 pp., $46.32 (e-book), $134.30 (hardback), $49.25 (paperback), ISBN: 1316605884 (e-book)

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