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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"lexical diversity"”.
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A large-scale analysis of lexical diversity in children who stutter
This study compared lexical abilities in 99 pairs of children who stutter (CWS), ages 25 – 100 months and age-, gender-, and SES-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS) in spontaneous conversation and on standardized vocabulary tests. Correlations among lexical diversity measures and …
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An Investigation into L2 Lexical Proficiency of Norwegian Secondary Learners
This thesis explores lexical proficiency in L2 learner writing across different year groups and writing genres. Given the intricate nature of lexical proficiency, this thesis investigates lexical proficiency in L2 learner writing through one of its dimensions, which is lexical diversity. This …
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The influence of lexical features on human rater's judgement of essay performance on local English Placement Test
… explored to what extent the prompts may affect lexical features and whether lexical features could distinguish essays that were rated as different proficiency levels in the integrated reading-writing tasks. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 262 essays from the English Placement …
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Lexical and Collocational Sophistication in Chinese High School Writing
… senior high school students make use of their lexical and collocational knowledge in their academic writing. This thesis applies two corpora to compare passages written by Chinese senior high school students and mainstream Year 11 secondary students in the United Kingdom. In study 1, I explore …
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The Potential Influence of Crosslinguistic Similarity on Lexical Transfer: Examining Vocabulary Use in L2 English
… language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this shows that learners’ L1 influences their L2 word choices, and that lexical similarity—which relates to cognancy—between L1 words and their L2 counterparts facilitates the processing of the L2 words, …
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Investigating the impact of spellcheck on writing for students with and without dyslexia
… spelling, which may also restrict their written lexical diversity. Thus spellcheck could be particularly useful to these writers. However, writers with dyslexia also have difficulties with executive functioning required to prevent distraction, and so the automatic underlining of spellcheck could …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… African American English (AAE) feature, lexical diversity (NDW), and general language production (MLU, TNU, TNW). A culturally-fair standardized language assessment battery was administered including the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4, Expressive Vocabulary Test-2, and the Diagnostic …
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Análise de grafos de textos literários: investigação de traços psicóticos
… of 14 graph attributes was assessed, comprising lexical diversity (number of nodes), connectedness (edges, largest connected component, largest strongly connected component) and size (diameter, average shortest path), recurrence (repeated edges, parallel edges, loops of 1, 2 or 3 nodes), and …
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Providing Personalised Experience in Text-based Customer Service Conversations
… styles such as empathy, small talk and lexical diversity need to be personalised based on psychological and individual customer knowledge such as emotions and relational history. The developed propositions are subsequently tested with two quantitative studies. The first study uses a …
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Exploring the Role of Vocabulary in EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed Methods Study
… the vocabulary–speaking link by exploring lexical features and characteristics in spoken discourses, investigating the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and oral proficiency, and inspecting the association between lexical richness and speaking. However, little attempt has been made …
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COGNITION, MODALITY, AND LANGUAGE IN HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS
… of informativity (e.g., the Measure of Textual Lexical Diversity and Shannon entropy). We attributed the observed differences in these two measures to the fact that, while both serve to measure new or unique information, MTLD indexes additional linguistic information (e.g., semantic, lexical). …
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Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
… the richness of their vocabulary as measured by lexical diversity and lexical sophistication at each level of speaking proficiency.</p>
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Empathetic Text Style Transfer Layer for Conversational Agents a modular architecture and new resource for the italian language
… 1 billion parameters) to achieve high levels of lexical diversity and emotional resonance. The results confirm that this modular capability is not only robust within the medical domain but generalizes effectively to financial, legal, and social contexts. Ultimately, this work provides a scalable, …
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Relationships between lexical proficiency and L2 oral proficiency
<p>Lexical proficiency is strongly correlated with L2 productive language ability (Crossley, Salsbury, & McNamara, 2011; Laufer & Nation, 1995). While many studies have investigated the relationship between lexical proficiency and L2 writing ability, not many studies have been conducted in terms of …
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An investigation into the relationship between the quality of children’s speech and early years environments
… development. By then analysing young children’s lexical diversity alongside the TQAF analysis, it has been possible to argue that there is a positive association between the quality of the environment and the quality of children’s utterances within the four study settings. It is argued that it is …
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Automatic assessment and feature-based characterisation of oral narratives for Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
… of narrative development. Key indicators include lexical diversity and productivity, while speech production features such as articulation rate show unexpectedly limited predictive value. Although relevant keywords and phrases vary by language, certain verbs, auxiliaries and nouns linked to core …
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Understanding Empathy in Online Support Forums
… overall response quality, including fluency, lexical diversity, and perceived empathy. Finally, we introduce Empathy–Metaphor, the first corpus to explicitly annotate metaphorical spans in empathetic replies. This dataset builds on AcnEmpathize and focuses on metaphors due to their strong …
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Analyzing lexical features to predict Indian ITAs’ performance in a university oral English assessment
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01