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Nov 23, 2014 07:22
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Spanish term
volumen léxico
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Psychology
I am wondering if there are any experts out there. This is from a study on lexical acquisition in late talkers and typically developing children. In the key words from the abstract the autor has translated "volumen léxico" as "lexical growth"but I am far from sure it's the right term. It occurs a few times during the article:
2. Los niños/as con mayor número de palabras a los 24 meses presentarán un incremento mayor de palabras a los 30 meses; es decir, su ritmo de adquisición será mayor a lo largo del seguimiento y a la inversa, los niños con menor número de palabras a los 24 meses tendrán un incremento menor en su ***volumen léxico*** 6 meses después.
Este resultado es coherente con otros observados anteriormente (Heilman y cols., 2005; Huttenlocher, Haight, Bryck, Seltzer, y Lyons, 1991; Jackson Maldonado, Peña y Aghara ,2009; Le Normand, Parisse y Cohen 2008 y Mariscal y cols., 2007) en los que se informa precisamente que las niñas de dos años presentan un mayor ***volumen léxico*** que los niños.
Por último, respecto del conjunto de niños, los datos muestran que los niños de los cuartiles centrales evolucionan en ***volumen léxico*** más que los niños que ocupan los otros cuartiles. (the data in this case is the amount of words parents report their children producing at 24 and 30 months)
It seems to me that it as it apparently refers to the number of words they produce, the correct term should be "vocabulary size", which anyway seems to be much closer to "volumen léxico" than" lexical growth".
2. Los niños/as con mayor número de palabras a los 24 meses presentarán un incremento mayor de palabras a los 30 meses; es decir, su ritmo de adquisición será mayor a lo largo del seguimiento y a la inversa, los niños con menor número de palabras a los 24 meses tendrán un incremento menor en su ***volumen léxico*** 6 meses después.
Este resultado es coherente con otros observados anteriormente (Heilman y cols., 2005; Huttenlocher, Haight, Bryck, Seltzer, y Lyons, 1991; Jackson Maldonado, Peña y Aghara ,2009; Le Normand, Parisse y Cohen 2008 y Mariscal y cols., 2007) en los que se informa precisamente que las niñas de dos años presentan un mayor ***volumen léxico*** que los niños.
Por último, respecto del conjunto de niños, los datos muestran que los niños de los cuartiles centrales evolucionan en ***volumen léxico*** más que los niños que ocupan los otros cuartiles. (the data in this case is the amount of words parents report their children producing at 24 and 30 months)
It seems to me that it as it apparently refers to the number of words they produce, the correct term should be "vocabulary size", which anyway seems to be much closer to "volumen léxico" than" lexical growth".
Proposed translations
(English)
3 +2 | lexicon | Simon Bruni |
5 | vocabulary | sonyka (X) |
3 +1 | lexical volume | neilmac |
References
lexicon | Chris Maddux |
Proposed translations
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41 mins
lexicon
In linguistics the term for the body of words known by an individual is "lexicon".
lexicon
■ noun
the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.
lexicon
■ noun
the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.
Peer comment(s):
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Chris Maddux
: "the amount of" lexicon is much more than....
2 hrs
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agree |
philgoddard
: But you can't say "amount of lexicon".
7 hrs
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22 mins
lexical volume
It may be that the author has adopted the term (whether this is appropriate or not is moot) to describe the number of words at their command (AFAIK "produce" fell out of favour in the 80s), based on expressions found in general grammar texts like this:
"According to the requirement of the teaching and the need of the learning, this series of grammar textbooks are divided into lexical volume and syntax volume.
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Note added at 23 mins (2014-11-23 07:45:44 GMT)
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There should be no problem using the term if you define it clearly first...
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Note added at 1 day37 mins (2014-11-24 08:00:33 GMT)
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AKA "volume of lexis."
https://www.google.com/search?q="volume of lexis"&oq=&gs_l=
"According to the requirement of the teaching and the need of the learning, this series of grammar textbooks are divided into lexical volume and syntax volume.
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Note added at 23 mins (2014-11-23 07:45:44 GMT)
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There should be no problem using the term if you define it clearly first...
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Note added at 1 day37 mins (2014-11-24 08:00:33 GMT)
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AKA "volume of lexis."
https://www.google.com/search?q="volume of lexis"&oq=&gs_l=
Note from asker:
I had thought of this but found it used much more in second language learning contexts than in children's language acquisition. Googling "lexical volume" "24 months" you get very few hits .... |
Peer comment(s):
agree |
philgoddard
: This is fine too.
8 hrs
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Thanks, although the asker doesn't seem to see the link between 2nd language acquisition and "language learning contexts". Go figure...
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1 day 1 hr
vocabulary
Vocabulary- word acquisition. I have read your context and I think is more appropriate to use this word because little children learn words and form a vocabulary.
Reference comments
2 hrs
Reference:
lexicon
the vocabulary of a particular language,field, social class, person, etc.
A common term used in Linguistics.
A common term used in Linguistics.
Discussion
So I seem to have answered my own question ...