Type/Token Ratio=lexical density?

[kavona]

is Type/Token Ratio=lexical density?i mean roughly speaking?

 

[jinshan_wu]

type/token ration can show the lexical density of a text.

 

[slgg6985]

回复：Type/Token Ratio=lexical density?

Please refer to p263 of Longman Dic. of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics (英英.英汉双解). There you can see they mean the same concept.

 

[xiaoz]

Different people may have differen ideas of what constitutes lexical density: TTR vs. the ratio of content words over function words...