TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lisson, Paula
A1  - Ballier, Nicolas
T1  - Investigating Lexical Progression through Lexical Diversity Metrics in a Corpus of French L3
JF  - Discours : revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique
N2  - This article presents a corpus-based evaluation of 13 lexical diversity metrics as measures of longitudinal progression in written productions of learners of French as third language (L3). Our case study (24 learners, 3 productions per learner in the course of 3 months) deals with a semi-longitudinal corpus, where each of the productions is supposed to be more complex than the previous one. Random forests (Breiman, 2001; Hothorn et al., 2019) are used in order to see whether lexical diversity metric scores capture enough vocabulary diversity progression to predict the production wave. We report that lexical diversity metrics capture lexical progression through the three productions of each student. In particular, two metrics appear to be the most informative for lexical progression: Herdan’s C and Yule’s K.
KW  - lexical diversity
KW  - learner corpora
KW  - L3 French
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.9950
SN  - 1963-1723
IS  - 23
PB  - Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Maion Recherche
CY  - Paris
ER  -