Investigating accommodation in language proficiency interviews using a new measure of lexical diversity

By D. Malvern, Brian Richards. 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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THE EFFECTS OF PLANNING ON FLUENCY, COMPLEXITY, AND ACCURACY IN SECOND LANGUAGE NARRATIVE WRITING (2004, methodology): “…words and the type-token ratio of each segment calculated by dividing the total number of different words by the total number of words in the segment+ The MSTTR ~Malvern & Richards, 2002! was computed for each participant by adding the mean scores for his or her segments and dividing the total…”
Lexical Diversity in Writing and Speaking Task Performances (2010, background): “Lexical diversity has been considered an illuminative predictor of learners’ general language proficiency (Zareva, Schwanenflugel, & Nikolova, 2005) and an essential indicator of the quality of their writing (Laufer & Nation, 1995) and speaking (e.g., Jarvis, 2002; Malvern & Richards, 2002; O’Loug”
Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Moving-Average Type–Token Ratio (MATTR) (2010, background): “Such parameters include K (Yule, 1944), D or vocd (Malvern & Richards, 2002), the Tornquist function of Tuldava (1995) and Panas (2001), or the interpolation function of Mu¨ller (2002); for others see Tweedie and Baayen (1998).”
Task-based instruction (2003, methodology): “Fortunately, Malvern and Richards (1997, 2002) have offered a statistic, D, which can be calculated (without contamination from text length) for texts of variable length.”
Individual differences and language interdependence: a study of sequential bilingual development in Spanish–English preschool children (2009, background): “Although Type-Token Ratio has traditionally been used to estimate lexical diversity production in monolingual children, the validity of this measure has been questioned because investigators have found that it fluctuates according to sample size (Malvern and Richards 2002; Owen and Leonard 2002).”
Capturing the Diversity in Lexical Diversity. (2013, background): “Although some researchers have found Yule’s solution to be uninterpretable (see Malvern & Richards, 1997, for references to such studies), those who understand the mathematics behind it recognize that it represents the probability that, during the random selection of words from a text, the same…”
Measuring L2 Lexical Growth Using Hypernymic Relationships (2009, methodology): “MTLD was selected to link the WordNet hypernymy data to lexical growth because LD measures are commonly used to analyze lexical growth (Jarvis, 2002; Malvern & Richards, 2002; Polio, 2001).”
Effects of input properties, vocabulary size, and L1 on the development of third person singular –s in child L2 English (2012, unknown): “The language samples provided further information on the children’s expressive vocabulary, as indexed by the lexical diversity measure D (Malvern & Richards, 2002), and their expressive grammar, estimated by mean length of utterance in words (MLUW).”
Task Complexity, Focus on L2 Constructions, and Individual Differences: A Classroom-Based Study. (2011, methodology): “As a measure of lexical diversity, values of D were obtained (Malvern & Richards, 2002) by using the computer program vocd in CLAN (MacWhinney, 2000).”
Pair versus individual writing: Effects on fluency, complexity and accuracy (2009, background): “It is possible that other measures of complexity such as the Mean Segmental Type/Token Ratio (Malvern & Richards, 2002) or other measures of grammatical verb form such as modality, tense or voice (Ellis & Yuan, 2005) might elicit different results.1 c Accuracy The measures for accuracy produced a…”
Task Design and Second Language Performance: The Effect of Narrative Type on Learner Output (2008, methodology): “D This is a measure of lexical diversity developed by Malvern and Richards (2002) and determined by using their VocD analysis program on CHAT-formatted transcripts.”