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Lexical Richness in the Spontaneous Speech of Bilinguals
Applied Linguistics, 2003The focus of the present paper is on the measurement of lexical richness. Lexical richness is often measured either by the traditional type-token ratio (TTR) or by its square root variant, the index of Guiraud. The disadvantages of these measures, especially those of the TTR, are well-known.
Daller, H. +2 more
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Comparing measures of lexical richness
2007Contains fulltext : 275817.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
Hout, R.W.N.M. van, Vermeer, A.R.
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2018
<p>Purpose: This study investigates one possible reason for individual differences in vocabulary learning from written context. A Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) model is used to motivate the prediction of a causal relationship between semantic knowledge for words in a text and the quality of their hypotheses about the semantics of novel words, an
Dawna Margaret Duff +5 more
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<p>Purpose: This study investigates one possible reason for individual differences in vocabulary learning from written context. A Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) model is used to motivate the prediction of a causal relationship between semantic knowledge for words in a text and the quality of their hypotheses about the semantics of novel words, an
Dawna Margaret Duff +5 more
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lemonUby – A large, interlinked, syntactically-rich lexical resource for ontologies
Semantic Web, 2015We introduce lemonUby, a new lexical resource integrated in the Semantic Web which is the result of converting data extracted from the existing large-scale linked lexical resource UBY to the lemon lexicon model. The following data from UBY were converted: WordNet, FrameNet, VerbNet, English and German Wiktionary, the English and German entries of ...
Eckle-Kohler, Judith +2 more
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Lexical Richness of Short Stories Written by EFL Students
EFL Education Journal, 2022The study concerns with lexical richness of short stories. The data consist of 48 short stories written by English Study Program of University of Trunojoyo Madura. This study aims at measuring the lexical richness of short stories by different gender based on three measurements, i.e. lexical density, lexical sophistication, and lexical variation.
Nata Permata, Rosyida Ekawati
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A rich view of lexical competence
ELT Journal, 1989In this article I begin by examining some features of the negotiation of meaning between learners and teachers, where the goal of the interaction is to convey the meaning of a technical word from the teacher to a learner. I suggest that this examination leads us to distinguish between the declarative knowledge that' words have particular meanings, and ...
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Lexical Richness and Text Length: An Entropy-based Perspective
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2020Text length is a major concern in the measurement of lexical richness, and how lexical richness is affected by text length still remains open.
Yaqian Shi, Lei Lei
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