Short texts, best-fitting curves and new measures of lexical diversity

Language Testing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-84

  Jarvis, Scott ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84990348082     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0265532202lt220oa     Document Type: Article

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