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The Measurement of Vocabulary Difficulty
Author(s) -
Tharp James B.
Publication year - 1939
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1939.tb02893.x
Subject(s) - vocabulary , index (typography) , computer science , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , programming language
Author's Summary— Six previous studies of vocabulary measurement are briefed in which four major fallacies mar the techniques. Data are presented from two investigations to show the application of a proposed Index of Difficulty , obtained by combining the two factors of Density and Frequency.