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Lexical features in speech of mentally retarded adults [PDF]
Ravānshināsī-i Afrād-i Istis̠nāyī, 2015 The aim of this study was to investigate the lexical features including lexical richness, the total number of words, and the percentage of kinds of content words in the speech of adults with mental retardation and so to determine the percentage and to ...
الهه اکبری, علی قربانی
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Lexical Statistics and Tipological Structures: A Measure of Lexical Richness
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013 AbstractFor some time now research has been carried out in the field of lexicometry into the statistical indices that enable lexical richness to be evaluated. The main problem lies in the fact that there should be no influence at all in the results of the formula of the length of the text in terms of the number of words it contains.
Torruella, Joan, Capsada, Ramon
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012 There is considerable evidence (e.g., Pexman, Hargreaves, Siakaluk, Bodner, & Pope, 2008) that semantically rich words, which are associated with relatively more semantic information, are recognized faster across different lexical processing tasks ...
Melvin J. Yap +4 more
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Features of lexical richness in children's books: Comparisons with child-directed speech
Language Development Research, 2021 Access to children’s books via shared reading may be a particularly rich source of linguistic input in the early years. To understand how exposure to book language supports children’s learning, it is important to identify how book language differs to ...
Alvin Wei Ming Tan +4 more
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Lexical Richness of Chinese College Students’ Spoken English
Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2023 Lexical richness has been considered one of the most effective methods of assessing writing proficiency. However, the studies on spoken English lexical richness for EFL Chinese students are relatively few. By comparing low, middle, and high levels of Chinese college students’ spoken English, based on Read’s (2000) and Costa’s (2005) framework, this ...
Fan Jiamin, Yang Caixin, Huang Zheng
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022 The Japanese context is a particularly rich area for a wide range of vocabulary research. I was therefore quite honored (and humbled) to be asked to serve as one of the discussants for the 2022 JALT Vocabulary SIG.
Kristopher Kyle
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Semantic richness effects in lexical decision: The role of feedback [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2015 Across lexical processing tasks, it is well established that words with richer semantic representations are recognized faster. This suggests that the lexical system has access to meaning before a word is fully identified, and is consistent with a theoretical framework based on interactive and cascaded processing. Specifically, semantic richness effects
Melvin J, Yap +2 more
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Vocabulary Size and Use: Lexical Richness in L2 Written Production [PDF]
Applied Linguistics, 1995 This article shows that if there is some control over genre then there will be a close correspondence between the vocabulary size of intermediate learners as reflected in their writing and a more direct measure of vocabulary size The study proposes a new measure of lexical richness, the Lexical Frequency Profile, which looks at the proportion of high ...
Paul Nation, B Laufer
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Semantic Richness Effects in Syntactic Classification: The Role of Feedback
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Words with richer semantic representations are recognized faster across a range of lexical processing tasks. The most influential account of this finding is based on the idea that semantic richness effects are mediated by feedback from semantic-level to ...
Melvin J Yap, Penny M Pexman
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Lexical Richness of L2 Production Using Nation and Laufer's Lexical Frequency Profile
, 2020 The study assessed the essays’ lexical richness in two hundred words each essay among the Second Year College Filipino and Nigerian students at St. Dominic College of Asia, Philippines in K1 words (1- 1,000), K2 words (1,001-2,000), Academic Word List (AWL), and Off-List Words. Essay 1 - SOGIE Bill, and Essay 2, one (1) topic of students’ choice: (2.a)
Real, Don Vicente C. +6 more
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