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Stig Johansson teaches in the Department of English at the University of Oslo.
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Johansson, S. Word frequency and text type: Some observations based on the LOB corpus of British English texts. Comput Hum 19, 23–36 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02259615
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