Measures of Lexical Richness

Lexical richness is about the quality of vocabulary in a language sample. For some, this is equated with the variety of lexis, while for others it is a multidimensional concept. Keywords: assessment methods in applied linguistics; computational linguistics; research methods in applied linguistics; vocabulary

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