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Type-Token Ratio

The type-token ratio (TTR) is the oldest and most widely used measure of lexical diversity: the number of distinct word types in a text divided by the total number of word tokens. A text in which few words repeat yields a TTR near 1, while a text that recycles a small vocabulary yields a TTR near 0. Despite its intuitive appeal and trivial computation, the raw ratio is severely confounded by text length, which has motivated a long line of length-correcting transformations and, ultimately, the more robust indices that have largely superseded it for serious comparison.

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Type-Token Ratio (TTR) for Lexical Diversity
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / linguistics
  • Johnson, W. (1944). Studies in language behavior: A program of research. Psychological Monographs, 56(2), 1–15. · DOI 10.1037/h0093508
  • Malvern, D., Richards, B., Chipere, N., & Durán, P. (2004). Lexical Diversity and Language Development: Quantification and Assessment. Palgrave Macmillan. · ISBN 9781403902313
  • McCarthy, P. M., & Jarvis, S. (2010). MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment. Behavior Research Methods, 42(2), 381–392. · DOI 10.3758/BRM.42.2.381
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Same method familyLexical Diversitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketMeasure of Textual Lexical Diversity (MTLD)machine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyN-gram Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketvocd-D (D Measure)machine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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