Distinctiveness : a new measure of lexical diversity

By A. Mellor. 2006

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Exploring measures and perceptions of fluency in the speech of second language learners. (2004, background): “…revealed significant differences between fluent and non-fluent participants in the case of five of the investigated ten temporal variables: speech Malvern and Richards (1997) argue that the D-value is a valid measure of diversity because it does not depend on the length of the sample, and it…”
vocd: A theoretical and empirical evaluation (2007, methodology): “It is not enough to be able to show what an LD tool does measure; we also need a D was originally proposed by Malvern and Richards (1997) as a measure designed to overcome the text-length dependency problem et al .”
The Role of Task Complexity, Modality, and Aptitude in Narrative Task Performance (2012, background): “Malvern and Richards (1997) argue that the D-value is a valid measure of lexical diversity because it does not depend on the length of the sample, and it uses all the words produced by the participants (for a discussion of various measures of lexical diversity see Jarvis, 2002).”
TEXT CHARACTERISTICS OF TASK INPUT AND DIFFICULTY IN SECOND LANGUAGE LISTENING COMPREHENSION (2013, background): “…that pauses at natural boundaries facilitate comprehension (e.g., Blau, 1990 ), probably due to the increased processing time available (e.g., Buck, 2001 ), Bloomfi eld and colleagues have called for research that employs articulatory rate as well as measures of pause phenomena in future studies.”
Effects of input on the early grammatical development of bilingual children (2010, background): “The two general measures are D (Malvern & Richards, 1997) for vocabulary development and MLU-W (Brown, 1973) for grammatical development.”
Effects of Task Complexity on L2 Writing Behaviors and Linguistic Complexity (2017, methodology): “MTLD = index of textual lexical diversity; LSA = latent semantic analysis; D value = measure of lexical variability based on Malvern and Richards (1997).”