Robert Nelson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert Nelson is involved.

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Nelson, Robert 2015 Issues with the capture-recapture measure of vocabulary size The Mental Lexicon 10:1, pp. 152–163 | Article
This short paper discusses shortcomings of the capture-recapture (CR) method of estimating vocabulary size (Meara & Olmos Alcoy, 2010; Williams, Segalowitz & Leclair, 2014). When sampling from a population generated by a power-law process (e.g., a Zipf distribution), the probability that any given… read more
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