Lexical Diversity, Lexical Sophistication, and Predictability for Speech in Multiple Listening Conditions

Baese‐Berk, Melissa M.; Drake, Shiloh; Foster, Kurtis; Lee, Dae-Yong; Staggs, Cecelia; Wright, Jonathan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661415

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“…The word frequency is taken as an index for lexical sophistication in which low LS scores indicate the use of lower frequency words which are considered to be more difficult/complex and therefore higher lexical sophistication. Compared to more traditional methods such as type/token ratio, LS measures have been shown to be more sensitive to capturing variation and neutralizing the effect of data related issues such as text length (e.g., Baese-Berk et al, 2021;Gharibi & Boers, 2019).…”

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Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in Persian heritage language outcomes

Gharibi,

Bayram,

Guajardo

2023

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Individual variation in heritage language (HL) outcomes does not seem to be random. Instead, this variation can be related to the specific exposure and use patterns heritage speakers (HSs) have with their languages in the contexts they reside. In this study, we present data from 38 child HSs of Persian in English dominant contexts (in New Zealand and the UK), their mothers as well as a control group of age-matched monolinguals in Iran. All participants completed a film-retelling task from which their lexical sophistication (LS) and clausal density (CD) were measured. In addition, the HSs’ mothers completed a sociolinguistic questionnaire for their children which was used to calculate proxies for language experiences. Out of the two linguistic measures, the HSs differed from monolinguals only in LS scores. Regarding the relationship between HSs’ linguistic scores and language experiences, Random Forest analyses showed HL literacy to be the most important variable for the CD scores; while it was the HSs’ age-at-testing for LS. The mothers’ scores were only important for the HSs’ LS scores. This study contributes to the ongoing discussions on the nature of HL development, outcomes and individual variation.

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Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in Persian heritage language outcomes

Gharibi,

Bayram,

Guajardo

2023

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“…In addition to a more detailed account of changes in oral fluency, when teaching vocabulary for productive purposes, it is useful to investigate changes in lexical complexity, which can be operationalised as lexical frequency (i.e., the number of tokens in particular word-frequency bands), lexical diversity (i.e., the ratio of the number of unique word types to the total number of tokens), and lexical density (i.e., the proportion of content words to the total number of tokens) (Révész et al, 2016). Lexical complexity is one form of linguistic development that would be reasonably expected to occur in a study such as this one (Baese-Berk et al, 2021).…”

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Second language vocabulary teaching and learning: A commentary on four studies for the JALT vocabulary SIG

Beglar¹

2021

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Four papers by Brandon Kramer, Tohru Matsuo, Aaron Sponseller, Young Ae Kim, Suzuka Nishiyama, and Stuart McLean; Stuart Benson and Naheen Madarbakus-Ring; Michael McGuire and Jennifer Larson-Hall; and Atsushi Mizumoto, Geoffrey Pinchbeck, and Stuart McLean were presented in the morning session of the 2021 Vocabulary SIG Symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, on 04 December 2021. As discussant, it was my pleasure to comment on each of the papers. The four studies were investigations of the attrition of productive vocabulary knowledge; the lexical composition of two English for Academic Purposes (EAP) textbooks; the relationship between high-frequency multi-word sequences, speech rate, and listening perception; and the use of various word lists with the New Word Level Checker. After reviewing and summarising each study in this paper, I present suggestions for further developing the studies and expanding the research agenda of each study.

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Conceptual Burstiness in Sociolinguistic Profiling of Radical-Criminal Communications: Corpus Method-Assisted Meaning Extraction for Investigative Leads

Etaywe

2024

Int J Semiot Law

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Positioned within linguistic profiling research as in Shuy’s work (The language of murder cases: intentionality, predisposition, and voluntariness. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014), this study introduces the concept of ‘conceptual burstiness’ to computer-assisted sociolinguistic profiling, demonstrating how to uncover investigative leads within terrorist threatening communications. Leveraging corpus analysis methods and semiotic clues, the study chiefly utilises AntConc (a software tool developed by Anthony, AntConc (Version 3.5.8) [Computer software]. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2019) to scrutinise word frequency and concordance lines, revealing distinct lexical preferences and their semantic proximity as recurrent thematic elements colouring the semantics of criminal texts. As a case study, the article examines 20 public statements attributed to notorious figures: the far-rightist Brenton Tarrant and jihadists Osama bin Laden, Abubakar Shekau, and Abubaker al-Baghdadi. Analysis conducted revealed repeated lemmas making up around 21.65% of the entire texts and encoding the semantic nature of the terrorist texts, giving rise to propelled conceptual burstiness categories as: (i) a function of the discursive purpose to which different lemmas converging within the same semantic fields are used in the forensic texts (e.g. introducing a radical concept and persuading the audience); and (ii) a reflection of the regularities in symbolic capital and repertoire of concepts to which the authors adhere. These discernible patterns reflect each author’s adherence to religious or ethnonationalist ideologies, patterns of violent-pathway language, agendas of control and dominance, and attribution practices that signal ideological stances and characteristic rhetorical devices. Integrating insights into the threat assessment framework TRAP-18 (Meloy & Gill, J Threat Assess Manag 3(1):37, 2016), the study offers a ‘post-diction’ (i.e. retrospective) lens on traditional risk assessment methods. The analysis of conceptual choices reveals patterns aligning with TRAP-18 categories of proximal warning behaviour and distal characteristics of terrorist communications, enhancing security and law enforcement professionals’ predictive ability and identifying pathways to radicalisation, fixation, identification with violent individuals and groups, desperation, or ‘last resort behaviour.’ The conceptual burstiness method promises insights for counter-terrorism efforts, informing accelerated investigatory and intervention protocols and objectionable content moderation online.

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Lexical Diversity, Lexical Sophistication, and Predictability for Speech in Multiple Listening Conditions

Cited by 8 publications

References 95 publications

Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in Persian heritage language outcomes

Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in Persian heritage language outcomes

Second language vocabulary teaching and learning: A commentary on four studies for the JALT vocabulary SIG

Conceptual Burstiness in Sociolinguistic Profiling of Radical-Criminal Communications: Corpus Method-Assisted Meaning Extraction for Investigative Leads

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