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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 23:1 (2018) ► pp. 119–124
Book review

Callies, M., & Götz, S. (2015). Leaner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment

M. Callies & S. Götz. Leaner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015. vi + 220 pp. https://​doi​.org​/10​.1075​/scl​.70

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Published online: 31 May 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.00003.han
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