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Youmans, Gilbert – Language, 1991
Proposes the Vocabulary-Management Profile, a tool for discourse analysis. The number of new words introduced in a moving interval of text 35 words long is counted and a curve created by plotting the number of new words in a successive interval at the midpoint of the interval. Analyses of text by George Orwell and James Joyce are presented. (JL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar