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Lexical coverage in dialogue listening

Language Teaching Research, 2021
In this quasi-experimental study, the effects of lexical coverage through pseudo word manipulation in dialogue comprehension are investigated. Forty-four first-year students in a Japanese university listened to five dialogues at different lexical coverage levels: 98%, 95%, 90%, 85%, and 83%.
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The Lexical Coverage of Movies

Applied Linguistics, 2009
The scripts of 318 movies were analyzed in this study to determine the vocabulary size necessary to understand 95% and 98% of the words in movies. The movies consisted of 2,841,887 running words and had a total running time of 601 hours and 33 minutes.
S. Webb, M. P. H. Rodgers
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Wide-Coverage lexicalized grammars

1997
This paper proposes a hierarchical organization of the linguistic knowledge, that views grammar as an abstraction of item-dependent information (in particular, an abstraction of subcategorization frames into a hierarchy of classes). The formalism has been successfully applied to a classification of 105 Italian verbal frames, developed by analysing a ...
C. BARBERO, LOMBARDO, Vincenzo
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Lexical Coverage of Spoken Discourse

Applied Linguistics, 2003
The Schonell et al. (1956) study of Australian oral English found that 2,000 word families provided around 99 per cent lexical coverage of spoken discourse. Based on this, scholars have accepted that around 2,000 word families provide the lexical resources to engage in everyday spoken English discourse.
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Improving lexical coverage of text simplification systems for Spanish

Expert Systems with Applications, 2019
Abstract The current bottleneck of all data-driven lexical simplification (LS) systems is scarcity and small size of parallel corpora (original sentences and their manually simplified versions) used for training. This is especially pronounced for languages other than English.
Štajner, Sanja, Saggion, Horacio, Ponzetto, Simone Paolo   +2 more
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Lexical coverage and reading comprehension revisited

Reading in a Foreign Language
The present study is a partial replication of the most widely cited study of lexical coverage and reading comprehension by Hu and Nation (2000). Ninety-four advanced L2 learners read a short story at one of 90%, 95%, 98%, and 100% lexical coverage and then completed a 14-item reading comprehension test.
Stuart Webb, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Andi Wang   +2 more
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A method for unsupervised broad-coverage lexical error detection and correction

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications - EdAppsNLP '09, 2009
We describe and motivate an unsupervised lexical error detection and correction algorithm and its application in a tool called Lexbar appearing as a query box on the Web browser toolbar or as a search engine interface. Lexbar accepts as user input candidate strings of English to be checked for acceptability and, where errors are detected, offers ...
Nai-Lung Tsao, David Wible
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The lexical coverage of popular songs in English language teaching

System, 2017
Abstract Songs are popular among language learners and a text genre that is yet to be fully exploited in language teaching. Questions arise regarding their lexical demand and vocabulary-learning opportunities they afford. Two pop song corpora were analyzed to determine the vocabulary size necessary to comprehend 95% and 98% of words in pop songs. The
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