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In studies of language development, the number of words that a child knows is one of primary indices for their language facility. This paper is about how to "count" the number of words which a child has never spoken before. The paper proposes a statistical technique to estimate such a number of never-spoken-before words. It also provides two case studies to which this method is applied, and showed the proposed method successfully estimate the number of latent words by the data.

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This page is a summary of: Estimating the latent number of types in growing corpora with reduced cost–accuracy trade-off, Journal of Child Language, February 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000915000094.
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