Abstract
SUMMARY. Eight hundred and nineteen essays were obtained from 14‐year‐old and 17‐year‐old pupils of five Northern Ireland grammar schools. Lexical analyses of the scripts are reported here. Measures were calculated for word productivity; lexical diversity; voice, modal and aspectual characteristics of finite verbs, and for various pronominal and negator usages. Subgroup differences were analysed for pairs of subsamples discriminable by discourse mode (narrative‐descriptive vs expository‐argumentative) or by the writers' age, sex, Cattell Exvia or Anxiety scores.
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