The development of semantic relations in second language speakers: A case for Latent Semantic Analysis

Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-74

  Crossley, Scott A ^a   Salsbury, Tom ^b   McNamara, Danielle S ^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; Latent semantic analysis; Lexical networks; Lexical proficiency; MTLD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954113400     PISSN: 16970381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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