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Vocabulary Difficulty

Vocabulary Difficulty is a linguistic metric within the field of genre-specific readability that quantifies the complexity of lexical items in a text based on the rarity, abstraction, and familiarity of words relative to a given audience or corpus.

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296

Authors

155

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

36

Variants

Lexical Difficulty

Parents

Publications

141

Lexical complexity and fixation times in reading: Effects of word frequency, verb complexity, and lexical ambiguity

Keith Rayner, Susan A. Duffy · Memory & Cognition · 1986 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Unknown vocabulary density and reading comprehension

Mingliang Hu, Paul Nation · 2020 · 655 citations · Full text

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Factors Affecting Guessing Vocabulary in Context

Liu Na, Paul Nation · RELC Journal · 1985 · 385 citations

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Effects on Reading Comprehension of Building Background Knowledge

Patricia Johnson · TESOL Quarterly · 1982 · 348 citations

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Unknown vocabulary density and reading comprehension

M Hu, Paul Nation · 2020 · 242 citations · Full text

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Authors

296

  1. PN
    Paul Nation

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    5 publications · 1.4K citations

    5

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  2. PF
    Peter Freebody

    University of New England, Australia

    4 publications · 312 citations

    4

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  3. RC
    Richard C. Anderson

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    3 publications · 289 citations

    3

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  4. TF
    Thomas François

    UCLouvain, Belgium

    3 publications · 86 citations

    3

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  5. NG
    Núria Gala

    Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, France

    2 publications · 56 citations

    2

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Institutions

155

  1. Educational Testing Service

    Princeton, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    290 citations

  2. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

    Milwaukee, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    88 citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    154 citations

  4. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    211 citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    463 citations

  6. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    116 citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    328 citations

  8. East Carolina University

    Greenville, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    87 citations

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Venues

  1. The Journal of Educational Research

    JER · 5 publications · 69 citations

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  2. Journal of Reading Behavior

    JRB · 4 publications · 386 citations

    4

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  3. Journal of Educational Psychology

    3 publications · 81 citations

    3

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  4. Foreign Language Annals

    FLA · 3 publications · 150 citations

    3

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  5. Language Learning Journal

    3 publications · 152 citations

    3

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