Measured Language: Quantitative Studies of Acquisition, Assessment, and Variation focuses on ways in which various aspects of language can be quantified and how measurement informs and advances our understanding of language. The metaphors and operationalizations of quantification serve as an important lingua franca for seemingly disparate areas of linguistic research, allowing methods and constructs to be translated from one area of linguistic investigation to another. Measured Language includes forms of measurement and quantitative analysis current in diverse areas of linguistic research from.

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Ubiquitous Oral versus Literate Dimension: A Survey of Multidimensional Studies; 2. When Ethnicity Isn't Just about Ethnicity; 3. Does Language Zipf Right Along? Investigating Robustness in the Latent Structure of Usage and Acquisition; 4. Subjectivity and Efficiency in Language Assessment: Explorations of a Compensatory Rating Approach; 5. Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The Case of Bima-Sumba; 6. Young Learners' Storytelling in Their First and Foreign Languages; 7. Measuring Quechua to Spanish Cross-Linguistic Influence. 8. Speedup versus Automatization: What Role Does Learner Proficiency Play?9. Frequency Effects, Learning Conditions, and the Development of Implicit and Explicit Lexical Knowledge; 10. The Differential Role of Language Analytic Ability in Two Distinct Learning Conditions; 11. U-Shaped Development: Definition, Exploration, and Falsifiable Hypotheses; 12. Using Simulated Speech to Assess Japanese Learner Oral Proficiency; 13. Keys to College: Tracking English Language Proficiency and IELTS Test Scores in an International Undergraduate Conditional Admission Program in the United States 14. How Does Foreign Language Proficiency Change over Time? Results of Data Mining Official Test Records15. The Development of Complexity in a Learner Corpus of German; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z