Towards an Automatic Measurement of Verbal Lexicon Acquisition: The Case for a Young Children-versus-Adults Classification in French and Mandarin

Abstract

International audienceIn this paper we define a lexical metrology in graphs of verbal synonymy to com-pute the flexsemic score of speakers from their verbal productions in action denominationtasks. This flexsemic score is used to automatically categorize young children versus youngadults. We show that this score is effective in French and in Mandarin