Lexical concreteness in narrative
Michael Flor, Swapna Somasundaran · 2019
This study explores the relation between lexical concreteness and narrative text quality.We present a methodology to quantitatively measure lexical concreteness of a text.We apply it to a corpus of student stories, scored according to writing evaluation rubrics.Lexical concreteness is weakly-to-moderately related to story quality, depending on story-type.The relation is mostly borne by adjectives and nouns, but also found for adverbs and verbs.