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<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Hi all and hi Ibrahim,
I can remember some few references related to word frequency. Here they are:
1. Samy, Waheed: "Computer Word Frequency Counting in Arabic", in Elgibali, A. (1996): Understanding Arabic. Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El-Said Badawi. Cairo. The American University in Cairo Press, pages 259-271. The corpus is based on arabic language textbooks, but the author says that previous studies on arabic word frequency are -but I didn't have access to them-:
. Landau, Jacob M.: A word count of Modern Arabic Prose. New York: American COucil of Learned Societies (not year indicated)
. Sartain, E. (comp.): Modern Written Arabic Graded Vocabulary Lists. Cairo. The American University in Cairo. (1978) (For use with Graded REaders in Modern Written Arabic)
. L'Arabe Fonctionnel. La comission Permanente de l'Arabe Foctionel. Second Edition. Tunis. 1976.
. المفردات الشائعة في اللغة العربية; إعداد الدكتور عطيّة عبدة, مطبوعات جامعة الرياض. ١٩٧٩
قائمة مكة للمفردات الشائعة; جامعة أم القرى، معهد العربية، وحدة البحوث ولمناهج.
I'm sorry for the mistakes on arabic: I have not adaptated my keyboard on this pc. I don't know if this author (Waheed Samy) has more studies on word frequency..maybe it's good to look for in this way.
2. And of course...: Buckwalter, T. & Parkinson, D. : A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic: Core Vocabulary for Learners. Routledge Frequency Dictionnaries
Hope that can help you. Regards,
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From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Joan Carreras Martí <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:joancmrus@gmail.com">joancmrus@gmail.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:Arabic Word response
</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Do you know the new "A frequency dictionary of Arabic" from Routledge</span></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">publishers, of year 2011?<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
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