Measuring L2 Lexical Growth Using Hypernymic Relationships

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The Development of Polysemy and Frequency Use in English Second Language Speakers (2010, methodology): “This method of longitudinal data collection has been successfully employed in similar studies that examine the development of L2 lexical sense relations (Crossley et al., 2008; Crossley et al., 2009, 2010).”
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).”
Lexical Sophistication as a Multidimensional Phenomenon: Relations to Second Language Lexical Proficiency, Development, and Writing Quality (2018, unknown): “All of the 240 written samples were assessed by three expert raters who were native speakers of English.”
Psycholinguistic word information in second language oral discourse (2011, background): “Similarly for the learning of second language vocabulary, concrete words are learned earlier (Crossley et al., 2009) and more easily than abstract words (Ellis and Beaton, 1993).”