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Emad A. Alghamdi; Paul Gruba; Ahmed Masrai; Eduardo Velloso – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Although measures of lexical complexity are well established for printed texts, there is currently no equivalent work for videos. This study, therefore, aims to investigate whether existing lexical complexity measures can be extended to predict second language (L2) learners' judgment of video difficulty. Using a corpus of 320 instructional videos,…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Interactive Video, Computer Assisted Instruction, Word Frequency
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Brown, Esther L.; Shin, Naomi – First Language, 2022
Child language acquisition research has provided ample evidence of lexical frequency effects. This corpus-based analysis introduces a novel frequency measure shown to significantly constrain adult language variation, but heretofore unexplored in child language acquisition research. Among adults, frequent occurrence of a form in a particular…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Word Frequency, Computational Linguistics