Tom Salsbury
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tom Salsbury plays a role.
Articles
2014 Frequency effects and second language lexical acquisition: Word types, word tokens, and word production International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3, pp. 301–332 | Article
Frequency effects in an L1 and L2 longitudinal corpus were investigated using Zipfian distribution analyses and linear curve estimations. The results demonstrated that the NS lexical input exhibited Zipfian distributions, but that the L2 lexical output did not match the NS Zipfian patterns. Word… read more
2013 Chapter 4. Validating lexical measures using human scores of lexical proficiency Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures, Jarvis, Scott and Michael Daller (eds.), pp. 105–134 | Chapter
This study examines the convergent validity of a wide range of computational indices reported by Coh-Metrix that have been associated in past studies with lexical features such as basic category words, semantic co-referentiality, word frequency, and lexical diversity. This study uses human… read more
2010 Using lexical indices to predict produced and not produced words in second language learners The Mental Lexicon 5:1, pp. 115–147 | Article
The paper explores how linguistic indices related to lexical networks and psycholinguistic models of lexical knowledge can be used to predict produced and not produced words in second language (L2) speakers. Two hypotheses are tested in this study. The first addresses how lexical properties thought… read more