This paper is concerned with lexical density in spoken and written news on BBC News. The purpose of this study to investigate the found regarding Afghanistan Taliban conflict broadcasted by BBC. method applied was a qualitative method. data consist five taken from YouTube channel obtained website. results show that generally, average levels both tend be same, is, higher than 50%. Specifically, ...

The present study puts SFL-based genre approach under examination for its effectiveness in promoting EFL writers’ genre awareness and writing competence in a 16-week semester in a state-run college in the east part of China. Three sets of data from preand post-test writings, interviews and questionnaires, are collected and analyzed with the help of the software SPSS and Range 32. The study indi...

The differences in the frequencies of some parts of speech (POS), particularly function words, and lexical diversity in male and female speech have been pointed out in a number of papers. The classifiers using exclusively context-independent parameters have proved to be highly effective. However, there are still issues that have to be addressed as a lot of studies are performed for English and ...

This paper investigates stylistic changes in a set of Portuguese historical texts ranging from the 17 to the early 20 century and presents a supervised method to classify them per century. Four stylistic features – average sentence length (ASL), average word length (AWL), lexical density (LD), and lexical richness (LR) – were automatically extracted for each sub-corpus. The initial analysis of ...

A great deal of work has shown that the size of the phonological neighborhood affects the speed and accuracy of spoken word recognition. Words with many similar sounding words (i.e., a dense neighborhood) are recognized more slowly and less accurately than words with few similar sounding words (i.e., a sparse neighborhood). However, little work has examined the structural differences that may e...

Research into vocabulary knowledge often differentiates between breadth (how many words a person knows) and depth well the are known). Both theoretical categories essential for understanding language learners’ lexical development, but how different aspects of interconnect has not received same attention as each individual dimension, especially in terms productive knowledge. This study analyses ...