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As we have indicated in the previous chapter, measuring lexical diversity is not as straightforward as it may seem, and to demonstrate the issues involved in its quantification we first need to consider in some detail an apparently simple approach and then discuss the most influential metric, which we shall show is fatally flawed.
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© 2004 David Malvern, Brian Richards, Ngoni Chipere and Pilar Durán
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Malvern, D., Richards, B., Chipere, N., Durán, P. (2004). Traditional Approaches to Measuring Lexical Diversity. In: Lexical Diversity and Language Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511804_2
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