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LEXICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENT PROSE: WRITER AND TASK EFFECTS
Author(s) -
MOORE E. MARGARET
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb02357.x
Subject(s) - lexical diversity , psychology , linguistics , argumentative , lexical density , scripting language , grammar , lexical semantics , lexical choice , narrative , task (project management) , lexical item , vocabulary , computer science , philosophy , management , economics , operating system
SUMMARY. Eight hundred and nineteen essays were obtained from 14‐year‐old and 17‐year‐old pupils of five Northern Ireland grammar schools. Lexical analyses of the scripts are reported here. Measures were calculated for word productivity; lexical diversity; voice, modal and aspectual characteristics of finite verbs, and for various pronominal and negator usages. Subgroup differences were analysed for pairs of subsamples discriminable by discourse mode (narrative‐descriptive vs expository‐argumentative) or by the writers' age, sex, Cattell Exvia or Anxiety scores.