From categories to gradience: Auto-coding sociophonetic variation with random forests
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عنوان ژورنال: Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1868-6354
DOI: 10.5334/labphon.216