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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Measuring Lexical Diversity
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Validation of the Model and its Application to Language Corpora
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Different Word Categories and their Diversity: Type-Type versus Type-Token
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Conclusion
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Reviews
'This book represents a major contribution to the study of both lexical diversity and language development... [and] provides the most comprehensive and compelling study available to date of vocabulary measurement, including type-token ratios, number of different words, and word length. The innovative, empirically validated, and user-friendly measure of lexical diversity (VOCD - or simply D) that it proposes is based on deep understanding of mathematical models combined with rich background in language acquisition and language assessment. The culmination of fifteen years of cooperative research between David Malvern, Brian Richards, and their co-authors at the University of Reading, this study represents the best of inter-disciplinary research. In style, the book is both erudite and readable. It should be an invaluable source of reference for scholars and graduate-level students in general and psycho-linguistics, in first and second language acquisition, language education, and language pathology.' - Ruth A. Berman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University
'David Malvern and his co-authors have developed a new and very promising approach to the study of lexical diversity and language development. Their statistical method is far more sophisticated than anything we have had in the past. This book will be of great interest to the developmental psycholinguistic community.' - Professor Jean Berko Gleason, Department of Psychology, Boston University
About the authors
BRIAN J. RICHARDS is Professor of Education, University of Reading, UK, and for seventeen years was an associate editor of the Journal of Child Language
NGONI CHIPERE is Lecturer in Language Arts, University of the West Indies in Barbados, and author of Understanding Complex Sentences: Native Speaker Variation in Syntactic Competence published by Palgrave in 2004.
PILAR DURÁN gained a PhD at Boston University and was Research Officer, University of Reading, UK, before becoming Business Development Manager at Eurobios.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lexical Diversity and Language Development
Book Subtitle: Quantification and Assessment
Authors: David Malvern, Brian Richards, Ngoni Chipere, Pilar Durán
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511804
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0231-3Published: 28 May 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0232-0Published: 28 May 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51180-4Published: 28 May 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 253
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Teaching, Language Education