rpg wrote:AllSubNoDub wrote:Based on English versions of the book:
- (# Total Words)/(# Distinct Words)
- Philosopher’s Stone: 76944/4112 = 18.71
- Chamber of Secrets: 85141/4939 = 17.24
- Prisoner of Azkaban: 107253/5282 = 20.31
- Goblet of Fire: 190637/6989 = 21.28
- Order of the Phoenix: 257045/7908 = 32.50
- Half-Blood Prince: 168923/7031 = 24.03
- Deathly Hallows: 198227/7340 = 27.01
Fairly decent trend. Also, as I've said, sometimes it's just a lot of new words because the situations are different, e.g. learning more car related language in book 2. The guy who read all the books in English/Japanese started reading them in Italian, but he skipped from 1 to 4 and he said the jump was noticeable and intense.
So, graded within each book? Not really. Graded from book to book? Yes.
This metric is meaningless, it mostly just correlates with book length. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaps%27_lawSomeone mentioned Lexile scores up-thread and there's no trend in the Lexile scores in the HP books. Books 1 and 7 both have the same score.
I see you didn't read my post carefully. I divided total number of words by distinct number of words to give an average of when one new word would be encountered. Simple arithmetic gives you the answer.
Since you mentioned it, in my experience, lexile scores are meaningless, at least as posted on
www.lexile.com. They weight sentence length heavily compared to number of distinct words - in my experience, only vocabulary really keeps foreign language books from being accessible to learners, rarely grammar and never sentence length. For example,
The Grapes of Wrath scores 680L despite having 175477 TW/8330 DW = 21.07, because of its short sentence length. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is 880L. I've also noticed, there will be multiple lexile scores for a given book, even if there's no indication if one is a graded reader or not.