Vocabulary Size Growth in Texts Written By and For Primary School Children

Keywords

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Issue Date

2019-06-28

Language

en

Document type

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Title

ISSN

Volume

Issue

Startpage

Endpage

DOI

Abstract

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.

Description

Citation

Supervisor

Faculty

Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen