Investigating minimum text lengths for lexical diversity indices
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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
Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference 2021
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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
Words by the tail: Assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits
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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