vocabulary size
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvocabularyandsize
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vocabulary
noun
uk/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/
all the words known and used by a ...
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size
noun
uk/saɪz/us/saɪz/
how large or small something or ...
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(Definition ofvocabularyandsizefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Family socioeconomic status has consistently been shown to relate positively to children'svocabularysizeand lexical production.
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Regression analyses showed that reading proficiency was related tovocabularysizein both languages and to level of phonological awareness.
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Moreover, of course, if one considered "total" vocabulary (counting doublets twice and singlets once), bilinguals could be seen to exceed monolinguals dramatically invocabularysize.
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The frequency of watching television was not related significantly tovocabularysizein either language.
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The majority of studies in vocabulary knowledge have mainly concentrated on investigating how many words learners know by measuringvocabularysizein comprehension or production.
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This appears to be true even in a study like the present one, in which children are matched for age, gender andvocabularysize.
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The relationships between shared reading andvocabularysizewere language specific.
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Moreover, we calculated how common nouns, predicates and function words contribute to the increase invocabularysizewhich constitutes the spurt.
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Two of them also showed a verb spurt but it occurred after the 50-word mark when theirvocabularysizereached over 100 words.
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Increasingvocabularysizeimproves decoding accuracy but increases the language model size and consequently decoding time.
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Indeed, the shape of the strong non-linear growth function connecting grammatical complexity to totalvocabularysizewas identical in the two languages.
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A third element is the distinction between how many words are known (vocabularysize) and how well individual words are known (depth of knowledge).
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The findings also indicated that receptivevocabularysizemight give some indication of productivevocabularysize.
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In addition, the predictive power of individual differences with respect tovocabularysizefor later development of language was examined.
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At fixed stages ofvocabularysize(50, 100 and 200 words), individual differences in percentile scores and vocabulary composition were examined.
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Whatvocabularysizeis needed to read unsimplified texts for pleasure?
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The final factor related to the acquisition of compounds to be discussed here isvocabularysize.
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The relationship betweenvocabularysizeand the acquisition of deverbal compounds can then be explored.
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Whenvocabularysizeis small, correct usage derives from the network underexploiting the resources available, allowing the network to ' memorize ' individual mappings.
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However, defining ' grammar ' so that it can be correlated with growth invocabularysizeis extremely problematic.
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