How Variable May a Constant be? Measures of Lexical Richness in Perspective

Tweedie, & Baayen. (1998). How Variable May a Constant be? Measures of Lexical Richness in Perspective.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1998

DOI

10.1023/a:1001749303137

Link

https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1001749303137

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Domain-specific

• Heaps' Law
  • The growth is also length-dependent for any vocabulary statistic computed from a finite sample: the type-token ratio V/N is not constant but declines as N^(β−1), so lexical-diversity measures require a Heaps correction to be comparable across corpus sizes.

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