Measuring l2 lexical growth using hypernymic relationships

Language Learning

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 307-334

  Crossley, Scott ^a   Salsbury, Tom ^b   McNamara, Danielle ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Hypernymy; Hyponymy; Lexical diversity; Lexical networks; Subordinates; Superordinates

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649126781     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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