Vocabulary Size Growth in Texts Written By and For Primary School Children
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2019-06-28
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en
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Present study uses recently published Dutch corpora BasiLex and
BasiScript to investigate the growth of vocabulary size in primary
school children and how this growth of vocabulary size is re
ected in
the texts presented to children. BasiLex is a 11.5 million word corpus
containing texts written for children, whereas BasiScript contains 9
million words written by children. By comparing these corpora, a
unique glimpse can be given in how we in
uence children vocabulary
development by the texts we present to our children.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen