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Diachronica
Vol. 13:2 (1996) ► pp.371–384
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Donald A. Ringe. On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison. Donald A. Ringe. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1992. 110 pp.

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