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Investigating minimum text lengths for lexical diversity indices

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recommendations! Published in 2021 at "Assessing Writing"

DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2020.100505

Abstract: Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) is an important feature of a second language (L2) writer’s lexical knowledge, and indices of LD have been widely used in the field of writing assessment (e.g., Cumming et al., 2006… read more here.

Keywords: minimum text; text lengths; lexical diversity; investigating minimum ... See more keywords
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Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference 2021

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recommendations! Published in 2021 at "Language Teaching"

DOI: 10.1017/s0261444821000306

Abstract: 1. Literature review 1.1. Lexical diversity Lexical diversity (LD) has been defined as ‘the range of vocabulary and avoidance of repetition’ (Malvern et al., 2004). LD is still perceived as an indicator of second language… read more here.

Keywords: poster presentations; lexical diversity; selected poster; linguistics ... See more keywords

Back to Basics in Measuring Lexical Diversity: Too Simple to Be True

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "Applied Linguistics"

DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae053

Abstract: Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a… read more here.

Keywords: linguistics; back basics; lexical diversity; measuring lexical ... See more keywords

Words by the tail: Assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "PLoS ONE"

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197775

Abstract: This research assesses the evolution of lexical diversity in scholarly titles using a new indicator based on zipfian frequency-rank distribution tail fits. At the operational level, while both head and tail fits of zipfian word… read more here.

Keywords: diversity; frequency; scholarly titles; lexical diversity ... See more keywords

Lexical diversity, syntactic complexity, and readability: a corpus-based analysis of ChatGPT and L2 student essays

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Frontiers in Education"

DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1616935

Abstract: This study compares AI-generated texts (via ChatGPT) and student-written essays in terms of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity, and readability. Grounded in Communication Theory—especially Grice’s Cooperative Principle and Relevance Theory—the research investigates how well AI-generated content… read more here.

Keywords: student; lexical diversity; complexity; syntactic complexity ... See more keywords