Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Moving-Average Type–Token Ratio (MATTR)

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

• Publication date

  2010-05-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1080/09296171003643098
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