Measuring vocabulary diversity using dedicated software

McKee, Gabriel

doi:10.1093/llc/15.3.323

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“…Following common practice in LD assessment (e.g., Hess et al, 1986;McKee, Malvern, & Richards, 2000;Tweedie & Baayen, 1998), each text of each register was divided into ever smaller sections (i.e., one section of 2,000, two sections of 1,000, etc.). This sectioning allowed each text to be represented in 11 different size forms for 99 data points per register; more specifically, the sectioning was necessary to establish the sensitivity of the LD indices when texts of varying lengths were assessed (see the discussion of internal validity, below).…”

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MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment

McCarthy

Jarvis

2010

Behavior Research Methods

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MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment

McCarthy

Jarvis

2010

Behavior Research Methods

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“…It is defined as the number of unique phrases appearing in titles of a statistically large unit quota of literature (thousands of articles). It is similar to the lexical diversity used in computational linguistics to study richness of verbal expression (McKee et al, 2000;McCarthy and Jarvis, 2007;Koizumi, 2012), but uses phrases (concepts) instead of individual words. Bodies of literature that have more diverse concepts in titles will have a higher fraction of unique phrases and could be considered to cover larger cognitive extents.…”

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The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

Milojević

2017

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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In this paper, we examine the characteristics of titles (average length, proportion of titles with subtitles, proportion of interrogatory, and indicative titles) and how they changed over a substantial period of time (half a century). We consistently analyze core literature in five diverse fields, in order to probe the usage of titles as a disciplinary identity building tool. In addition, we study whether different types of titles are used differently by authors depending on their academic age and productivity and collaboration levels, which has not been studied before. Finally, we revisit the connection between title characteristics and impact. We found that belonging to some discipline is the strongest determinant for the length of the titles and the occurrence of different forms of titles. This suggests that authors try to comply with the norms set in their fields. However, these norms are not fixed in time. Over the decades, the practices have changed, some of them quite abruptly. Individual groups of authors most often did not differ in their practices regarding the use of titles. We find that using titles posed as questions or titles stating the result do not lead to citation benefit.

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“…D is a measure of type-token ratios based on a random sampling of stretches of 50 words; i.e., it is not sensitive to variation in text length (see McKee et al 2000). A high score reflects low type-token ratios; i.e., greater lexical diversity.…”

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First language attrition and reversion among older migrants

Schmid

Keijzer

2009

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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Emigration usually requires speakers to become bilingual, and eventually they may even become dominant in their second language. This can lead to a gradual loss of proficiency in the first language, a phenomenon referred to as first language attrition. As migrants become elderly, however, they sometimes report a ''reversion'' in language dominance, whereby the second language, which they have used in their daily lives for years or decades, recedes and the first language becomes stronger again. There are largely anecdotal cases of communication between such speakers and their children who were not brought up to speak their parents' first language becoming impossible. It is, however, very di‰cult to separate fact from fiction in such reports. This article will give an overview of changes in lexical access and fluency in the first language of adult migrants. It will assess simplistic predictions for a linear development of first and second languages against a more complex perspective which takes into account psycholinguistic aspects of activation, inhibition, and cognitive ageing. The predictions made on this basis will be tested on a large-scale quantitative investigation of language proficiency among migrants of German and Dutch descent in the Netherlands and Canada.

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Measuring vocabulary diversity using dedicated software

Cited by 185 publications

References 8 publications

MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment

MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment

The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

First language attrition and reversion among older migrants

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