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Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2017
The present study discusses the relevance of measures of lexical diversity (LD) to the assessment of learner corpora. It also argues that existing measures of LD, many of which have become specialized for use with language corpora, are fundamentally measures of lexical repetition, are based on an etic perspective of language, and lack construct…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers