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Using dictionaries to estimate vocabulary size: essential, but rarely followed, procedures

This article describes the steps that need to be followed when sampling from a dictionary to make a test of vocabulary size. Because these steps have not been followed, most published estimates of vocabulary size are misleading.

Paul Nation | P. Nation

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