lexical diversity
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflexicalanddiversity
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lexical
adjective
uk/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/us/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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diversity
noun[S or U]
uk/daɪˈvɜː.sə.ti/us/dɪˈvɝː.sə.t̬i/
the fact of many different types of things or people being included in something; a range of different things ...
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(Definition oflexicalanddiversityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The children's mean length of utterance, total words uttered,lexicaldiversity, and use of propositional complements were assessed.
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However, no statistically significant differences were found across groups in terms of quality of language, as measured by lexical richness,lexicaldiversity, and syntactic complexity.
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First, in contrast to indices of lexical productivity, indices oflexicaldiversitydid not indicate clear developmental progression across the whole time period.
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In addition, we predicted high verbosity among the precocious cohort as measured bylexicaldiversityin the spontaneous samples.
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The expressive vocabulary measure for this study waslexicaldiversityin spontaneous speech.
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Investigating accommodation in language proficiency interviews using a new measure oflexicaldiversity.
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Lexicaldiversityin terms of the number of different verbs expressed in the past tense and the number of different nouns pluralized did not differ.
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Quantifyinglexicaldiversityin the study of language development.
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Regarding expressive vocabulary size, this was measured bylexicaldiversityin spontaneous speech rather than by a standardized test in our study.
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Finally, individual variation inlexicaldiversitycan be appreciated through the examination of differences in type\\token ratio.
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Other measures, such as type/token ratios, show a similar difference in productivity andlexicaldiversity.
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Despite their normal expressive language skills, however, these children continued to manifest weaknesses inlexicaldiversityand story grammar use in their oral narratives.
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In addition to this classical index oflexicaldiversity, we also examine a complementary index, the frequency of new words as a function of types.
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Lexicaldiversityrepresents the qualitative nature of interactions, as the use of a greater number of different words indicates more elaborations of or excursions from the direct text.
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The number of words per narrative and thelexicaldiversityare both greater for same-aged groups in small communities, whereas the number of grammatical errors produced is smaller.
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This relative lack of developmental progression for indices oflexicaldiversityis a logical consequence of the strong correlations observed between progressions of the three basic indices.
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For example, one can diverge in accent but converge inlexicaldiversity.
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