Tools for Researching Vocabulary / / Paul Meara, Imma Miralpeix.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Meara, Paul,; Miralpeix, Imma,
• MitwirkendeR: Meara, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book introduces an innovative collection of easy-to-use computer programs that have been developed to measure and model vocabulary knowledge. The book aims to help researchers discover new instruments for lexical analysis, and provides a theoretical framework in which studies with such tools could be conducted. Each of the programs comes with a short manual explaining how to use the program, an example of a published paper that uses the program and a set of questions that readers can develop into proper projects. The programs can be used in real research projects and have the potential to break new ground for research in L2 vocabulary acquisition. The book will be of great use to final year undergraduates and masters students in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and language testing and to PhD students doing research methods courses.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Processing Vocabulary Data -- 1. V_Words v2.0 and V_Lists v1.0 -- Part 2: Measuring Lexical Variation, Sophistication and Originality -- 2. D_Tools v2.0 -- 3. P_Lex v3.00 -- 4. Lexical Signatures -- 5. V_Unique v1.0 -- Part 3: Estimating Vocabulary Size -- 6. V_YesNo v1.0 -- 7. V_Size v2.01 -- 8. V_Capture v1.0 -- Part 4: Measuring Lexical Access -- 9. Q_Lex v4.0 -- Part 5: Assessing Aptitude for L2 Vocabulary Learning -- 10. LLAMA_B v2.0 -- Part 6: Modelling Vocabulary Growth -- 11. Mezzofanti v1.0 -- Envoi -- Author Index -- Subject Index