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Back to Basics in Measuring Lexical Diversity: Too Simple to Be True
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Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
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