Lexical Diversity and Language Development: Quantification and Assessment - Brossura

Malvern, D.; Richards, B.; Chipere, N.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1349508063 ISBN 13: 9781349508068

Casa editrice: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004

Riassunto

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements PART I: MEASURING LEXICAL DIVERSITY Introduction Some Approaches to Measuring Lexical Diversity A Mathematical Model of Lexical Diversity PART II: VALIDATION OF THE MODEL THROUGH ITS APPLICATION TO LANGUAGE CORPORA Early Child Language 1: The New England Corpus Early Child Language 2: The Bristol Corpus Lexical Diversity and the Investigation of Accommodation in Foreign Language Proficiency Interviews A New Measure of Inflectional Diversity and its Application to English and Spanish Date Sets PART III: DIFFERENT WORD CATEGORIES AND THEIR DIVERSITY: TYPE-TYPE VERSUS TYPE-TOKEN Comparing the Diversity of Lexical Categories: The Type/Type Ratio and Related Measures Lexical Diversity and Lexical Sophistication in First Language Writing PART IV: CONCLUSION Overview and Conclusions Notes Glossary of Technical Terms and Acronyms Appendices Index

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Palgrave MacMillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1349508063
• ISBN 13: 9781349508068
• Rilegatura: Paperback
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile