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Some Measures of Lexical Diversity in Aphasic and Normal Language Performance

Author(s) -

Robert S. Wachal,

Otfried Spreen

Publication year - 1973

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383097301600207

Subject(s) - aphasia , psychology , redundancy (engineering) , linguistics , lexical diversity , statistical significance , diversity (politics) , audiology , cognitive psychology , computer science , mathematics , statistics , vocabulary , medicine , philosophy , sociology , anthropology , operating system

Thirty-eight measures of lexical diversity are obtained (with the aid of a computer) from the free speech of 20 aphasic and 20 normal control subjects. After statistical analyses of significance and redundancy, 18 variables are retained for a later empirical derivation of types of aphasia. Eight of the variables are sufficiently significant to discriminate the aphasic group from the normal group.

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