MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment

The main purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the approach to lexical diversity assessment known as the measure of textual lexical diversity (MTLD). The index for this approach is calculated as the mean length of word strings that maintain a criterion level of lexical variation. To v...

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Published in:	Behavior research methods Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 381 - 392
Main Authors:	McCarthy, Philip M., Jarvis, Scott
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer New York 01.05.2010 Springer Nature B.V Psychonomic Society, Inc
Subjects:	Articles From the SCiP Conference Behavioral Science and Psychology Cognitive Psychology Convergent validity Data mining Discourse functions Evaluation Humans Indexes Internal validity Language Tests - statistics & numerical data Linguistics Psychology Psychology, Experimental - methods R&D Reproducibility of Results Research & development Validation studies Validity Word meaning Factor Size Latent Semantic Analysis Divergent Validity Hypergeometric Distribution Specific Language Impairment
ISSN:	1554-351X, 1554-3528, 1554-3528
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