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Lexical Diversity and Language Development : Quantification and Assessment

David D. Malvern, Brian Richards, Ngoni Chipere, Pilar Durán

· 2004-05-28· book· 283 citationsclosed

Second Language Acquisition and Learning Language Development and Disorders Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Abstract

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements PART I: MEASURING LEXICAL DIVERSITY Introduction Some Approaches to Measuring Lexical Diversity A Mathematical Model of Lexical Diversity PART II: VALIDATION OF THE MODEL THROUGH ITS APPLICATION TO LANGUAGE CORPORA Early Child Language 1: The New England Corpus Early Child Language 2: The Bristol Corpus Lexical Diversity and the Investigation of Accommodation in Foreign Language Proficiency Interviews A New Measure of Inflectional Diversity and its Application to English and Spanish Date Sets PART III: DIFFERENT WORD CATEGORIES AND THEIR DIVERSITY: TYPE-TYPE VERSUS TYPE-TOKEN Comparing the Diversity of Lexical Categories: The Type/Type Ratio and Related Measures Lexical Diversity and Lexical Sophistication in First Language Writing PART IV: CONCLUSION Overview and Conclusions Notes Glossary of Technical Terms and Acronyms Appendices Index

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David D. Malvern, Brian Richards, Ngoni Chipere, Pilar Durán (2004). Lexical Diversity and Language Development : Quantification and Assessment.

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  title  = {Lexical Diversity and Language Development : Quantification and Assessment},
  author = {Malvern, David D. and Richards, Brian and Chipere, Ngoni and Durán, Pilar},
  year   = {2004}
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