The Development of Polysemy and Frequency Use in English Second Language Speakers

By Scott Andrew Crossley, Tom Salsbury, Danielle S. McNamara. 2010

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Natural Language Processing

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Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change (2016, background): “Words gain senses over time as they semantically drift (Br´eal, 1897; Wilkins, 1993; Hopper and Trau-gott, 2003), and polysemous words 1 occur in more diverse contexts, affecting lexical access speed (Adelman et al., 2006) and rates of L2 learning (Crossley et al., 2010).”
Lexical Sophistication as a Multidimensional Phenomenon: Relations to Second Language Lexical Proficiency, Development, and Writing Quality (2018, unknown): “Previous studies have demonstrated that L2 learners who produce more sophisticated words and n-grams are judged to be more lexically proficient (Crossley et al., 2009, 2010, 2011a, 2011b, 2013; Crossley, Kyle, & McNamara, 2015; Kyle & Crossley, 2015).”
Size and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge: What the Research Shows (2014, background): “Crossley, Salsbury, and McNamara (2010) studied the spontaneous production of polysemous words 931 Language Learning 64:4, December 2014, pp. 913–951 over a 12-month period from six beginning L2 learners from an Intensive English Language Program (IELP; mean TOEFL score = 358), analyzing the…”
Automatically Assessing Lexical Sophistication: Indices, Tools, Findings, and Application (2015, methodology): “In cross-sectional studies (though see the longitudinal studies by Crossley et al., 2010, 2014) this is a novel finding that warrants further examination.”
Vocabulary Instruction in Fifth Grade and Beyond (2015, background): “In studies with students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 (N = 134), Cunningham and Stanovich (1991) demonstrated that the quantity of students’ reading significantly contributed to growth in both vocabulary and overall knowledge.”
Assessing Lexical Proficiency Using Analytic Ratings: A Case for Collocation Accuracy (2014, methodology): “In addition, indices derived from WordNet (Fellbaum 1998) have been shown to provide reliable measurements of word specificity and sense relations (Crossley et al. 2009, 2010a).”