Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in early lexical and grammatical development are reported for 1001 English-speaking children and 386 Italian-speaking children between 1;6 and 2;6. Parents completed the English or Italian versions of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences, a parent report instrument that provides information about vocabulary size, vo...

In recent years, the importance of emotional granularity, which refers to degree an individual can recognize emotions discretely, has been acknowledged. However, methods used measure it are burdensome, and a simple measurement index is needed. this study, vocabulary size was proposed as alternative measure, test developed. First, words were collected from Emotional Vocabulary Dictionary, their ...

The paper deals with the one of the oldest and most traditional fields in quantitative linguistic, the concept of vocabulary richness. Although there are several methods for vocabulary richness measurement, all of them are influenced by text size. Therefore, the authors propose a new way of vocabulary richness measurement without any text length dependence. In the second part of the article, th...