Assessing Writing Jul 2022

Investigating whether a flemma count is a more distinctive measurement of lexical diversity

Thwin Myint Myint Maw Hiroshima University ; Jon Clenton Hiroshima University ; George Higginbotham Seikei University
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Assessing Writing
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2022-07-01
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10.1016/j.asw.2022.100640
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