lexical diversity

collocation in English

meanings of lexicaland diversity

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lexical
adjective
uk /ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/ us /ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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diversity
noun[S or U]
uk /daɪˈvɜː.sə.ti/ us /dɪˈvɝː.sə.t̬i/
the fact of many different types of things or people being included in something; a range of different things ...
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The children's mean length of utterance, total words uttered, lexicaldiversity, and use of propositional complements were assessed.
However, no statistically significant differences were found across groups in terms of quality of language, as measured by lexical richness, lexicaldiversity, and syntactic complexity.
First, in contrast to indices of lexical productivity, indices of lexicaldiversity did not indicate clear developmental progression across the whole time period.
In addition, we predicted high verbosity among the precocious cohort as measured by lexicaldiversity in the spontaneous samples.
The expressive vocabulary measure for this study was lexicaldiversity in spontaneous speech.
Investigating accommodation in language proficiency interviews using a new measure of lexicaldiversity.
Lexicaldiversity in terms of the number of different verbs expressed in the past tense and the number of different nouns pluralized did not differ.
Quantifying lexicaldiversity in the study of language development.
Regarding expressive vocabulary size, this was measured by lexicaldiversity in spontaneous speech rather than by a standardized test in our study.
Finally, individual variation in lexicaldiversity can be appreciated through the examination of differences in type\\token ratio.
Other measures, such as type/token ratios, show a similar difference in productivity and lexicaldiversity.
Despite their normal expressive language skills, however, these children continued to manifest weaknesses in lexicaldiversity and story grammar use in their oral narratives.
In addition to this classical index of lexicaldiversity, we also examine a complementary index, the frequency of new words as a function of types.
Lexicaldiversity represents the qualitative nature of interactions, as the use of a greater number of different words indicates more elaborations of or excursions from the direct text.
The number of words per narrative and the lexicaldiversity are both greater for same-aged groups in small communities, whereas the number of grammatical errors produced is smaller.
This relative lack of developmental progression for indices of lexicaldiversity is a logical consequence of the strong correlations observed between progressions of the three basic indices.
For example, one can diverge in accent but converge in lexicaldiversity.
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