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Publication details [#39326]

Durán, Pilar, David Malvern, Brian Richards and Ngoni Chipere. 2004. Developmental Trends in Lexical Diversity. Applied Linguistics 25 (2) : 220–242.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | lexical field | meaning

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper discusses issues in measuring lexical diversity and outlines a measure 'D', based on mathematical modelling, to address measuring problems.