Lexical diversity and language development: Quantification and assessment

Lexical Diversity and Language Development: Quantification and Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-253

  Malvern, David D ^a,b,c   Richards, Brian J ^a   Chipere, Ngoni ^d   Durán, Pilar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Royal Society ^*  (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511804     Document Type: Book

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