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In his summary of measures of effective vocabulary use, Read (2000) includes among his four dimensions of lexical richness ‘A selection of low frequency words … rather than just general, everyday vocabulary [including] technical terms and jargon as well as the kind of uncommon words that allow writers to express their meanings in a precise and sophisticated manner’ (p. 200). He refers to this characteristic as lexical sophistication.
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Malvern, D., Richards, B. (2009). A New Method of Measuring Rare Word Diversity: the Example of L2 Learners of French. In: Richards, B., Daller, M.H., Malvern, D.D., Meara, P., Milton, J., Treffers-Daller, J. (eds) Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230242258_10
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