VOCD manual

Amber ambalashes at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 16:04:40 UTC 2015


Dear Gaby

Thanks very much for the reference - I'll check it out!

Best wishes
Amber 

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:32:18 UTC+1, GabySilva wrote:
>
> Dear Amber, 
>
> A study by McCarthy & Jarvis (2007) found that VOCD performs reasonably 
> well in the 100 to 400 tokens (correlation coefficient with tokens, r=.22). 
> I haven't checked that source in a while, but perhaps it has more 
> information about smaller samples.
>
> The source is:
>
> McCarthy, P. M., & Jarvis, S. (2007). Vocd: A theoretical and empirical 
> evaluation. *Language Testing, 24*(4), 459-488.
>
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> Gaby Silva
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> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:46:58 -0700
> From: ambal... at gmail.com <javascript:>
> To: chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>
> Subject: Re: VOCD manual
>
> In fact, perhaps I should just post my question on here. The CHAT manual 
> talks about calculating D and states that it can be done on samples as 
> small as 50 tokens. However, reliability is less good for small samples. 
> Could anyone advise me on whether VOCD is still a more valid measure than 
> TTR, even for small transcripts (e.g., during a shared-book reading 
> session)? I assume that as long as the sample is large enough for KIDEVAL 
> to be able to give me VOCD values then it is OK?
> Thanks
> Amber
>
> On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:36:05 UTC+1, Amber wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> The CLAN manual contains the following link, which no longer appears to 
> work. 
>
> http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/manuals/vocd.doc
>
> Is there a new link to the VOCD manual/another similar article? 
>
> Many thanks
> Amber
>
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