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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, R. van Hout and Helmut Daller. 2003. Lexical Richness in the Spontaneous Speech of Bilinguals. Applied Linguistics 24 (2) : 197–222.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
0142-6001

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that the proposed measures for advanced lexical richness, combining characteristics of type/token related measures with the notion of different layers of frequency/productivity in the lexicon, trace the characteristics of the bilingual profiles of the two studied groups of Turkish-German bilinguals better than the traditional measures.