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TYPE/TOKEN RATIO [1 record]

Record 1 1998-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Statistical Methods
CONT

Loquacity was an indirect indicator of lexical variety. It seemed to be slightly more so for the children in the study (type/token correlation 0,9337) than for the more numerous adults, but the significance level was the same in the case of both correlations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Méthodes statistiques
DEF

Rapport entre le nombre total des mots et le nombre de mots différents contenus dans un texte.

OBS

Cette expression, empruntée telle quelle de l'anglais, se présente dans PIPSY 1979 sans aucune autre expression en français.

Spanish

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