Volume 35, No. 1 The Counts of Dracula and Monte Cristo: Homonym Frequencies in Graded Readers

The Counts of Dracula and Monte Cristo: Homonym Frequencies in Graded Readers

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Volume 35, No. 1
contributor.author:
Parent, Kevin McLean, Stuart Kramer, Brandon Kim, Young Ae
date.accessioned:
2023-04-24T17:55:10Z
date.available:
2023-04-24T17:55:10Z
date.issued:
2023-04-26
description.abstract:
Graded readers are a great asset to learners acquiring the vocabulary of another language. Homonyms, on the other hand, are a recognized source of trouble for students with that same goal. Publishers of graded readers control the presentation of old and new words, but does this control extend to homonyms? Are only the word forms controlled for—in which case, the unrelated meanings of match (a pairing and a stick for starting fire) would together constitute two uses of the word? Or would these tally as separate words which, semantically and etymologically, they are? A comparison of a 4.2 million-word corpus of graded readers with previous research on the distributions of homonymic meanings in general English reveals that the meanings presented to learners are frequently quite different to those in general-purpose texts.
endingpage:
71
identifier.citation:
Parent, K., McLean, S., Kramer, B., & Kim, YA (2023). The counts of Dracula and Monte Cristo: homonym frequencies in graded readers. Reading in a Foreign Language, 35(1), 48–71. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67438
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67438
number:
1
publicationname:
Reading in a Foreign Language
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
site_url:
/rfl/item/569
startingpage:
48
subject:
homonymy polysemy L2 reading extensive reading graded readers L2 vocabulary acquisition lexical development
title:
The Counts of Dracula and Monte Cristo: Homonym Frequencies in Graded Readers
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Article
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Text
volume:
35