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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Three new resources (plus an
upcoming one) related to English word frequency and collocates, which might be
of interest to some of you. For more information, please see <a
href="http://www.wordfrequency.info/">http://www.wordfrequency.info/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>New this week:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>(PDF)
eBook containing the top <b>20,000</b> lemmas of American English, in rank
frequency order (based on the 400 million word <a
href="http://www.americancorpus.org/">Corpus of Contemporary American English</a>,
1990-2009). Also contains 20-30 collocates for each word + synonyms,
indications of genre variation, etc.<br>
[<b><a href="http://www.wordfrequency.info/files/entries.pdf">See a sample</a></b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>The book <i>Frequency Dictionary of American English:
word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists<b> </b></i>(Davies and Gardner,
2010, Routledge), which is now available from <a
href="http://www.routledgelanguages.com/books/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Contemporary-American-English-isbn9780415490634">Routledge</a>,
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Dictionary-Contemporary-American-English/dp/0415490634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264117499&sr=8-1">Amazon</a>,
etc. Part of the <a
href="http://www.routledge.com/books/series/routledge_frequency_dictionaries">Routledge
series of frequency dictionaries</a>. Top 5,000 lemmas of American English.
20-30 collocates + synonyms for each word + genre distribution, etc. Also contains
more than thirty thematically-oriented, frequency-ranked lists, such as new
words in American English, American-British differences, phrasal verbs,
genre-based differences, thematic vocabulary, etc .<br>
[<b><a href="http://www.wordfrequency.info/files/book.pdf">See a sample</a></b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>A
<a href="http://www.wordfrequency.info/free">free frequency-ranked list</a> of
the top 5,000 lemmas of American English, based on the Corpus of Contemporary
American English.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Upcoming (March 17)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Same
as #1, but with the top <b>200-300 collocates</b> per word. Unlike #1, can be
edited, copied from, etc. (Note: the files are ready now, but cannot be
distributed for a month yet).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'>[<a
href="http://www.wordfrequency.info/files/entriesWithCollocates.zip">See a
sample</a>; 32 MB]<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'>In addition, lemmas/POS/frequency-only
20,000 word <a
href="http://www.wordfrequency.info/files/entriesWithoutCollocates.zip">frequency
lists</a> (i.e. no collocates), as well as full bigram / trigram files from the
Corpus of Contemporary American English will also be available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Three examples (from among 20,000 in the eBook) for #1 above
are the following (<b><a href="http://www.wordfrequency.info/files/entries.pdf">see
a much larger sample</a></b>):<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>1421 blow</b> <i>v </i><br>
<i><u>noun</u></i> wind, whistle, air, nose, smoke, breeze, face,
hair, kiss, head, window, horn, candle, mind, storm <i><u>misc</u></i> away,
through, across<br>
<b>out</b> candle, window, breath, air, wind, smoke, knee, tire,
match <b>up</b> building, plot, bomb, plane, car, bridge, wind, threaten <b>off</b>
steam, head, roof, leg<br>
<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span> whoosh, gust, waft,
puff || move, propel, drive, carry<br>
27254 | 0.94 F<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><b>10129
shimmering</b> <i>j </i><br>
<i><u>noun</u></i> light, water, heat, hair, sun, sea, surface, silver, glass,
wave, color <i><u>misc</u></i> blue, white, across, above, green, golden, wear,
red, dark, rise, yellow, beyond<br>
<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span> iridescent, sparkling,
shining, gleaming, glistening, glittering<br>
1555 | 0.90 F<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><b>18669 pathos</b>
<i>n </i><br>
<i><u>adj</u></i> full, human, genuine, pure, sympathetic, comic, final, deep,
Greek, tragic <i><u>noun</u></i> humor, tragedy, comedy, sense, appeal,
suffering, emotion, ethos, scene <i><u>verb</u></i> evoke, reflect, avoid,
generalize, capture, experience, arouse<br>
<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span> sadness, bleakness,
despair, tragedy, anguish<br>
473 | 0.90 A<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>============================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mark
Davies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Professor
of (Corpus) Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Brigham
Young University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>(phone)
801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>**
Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>**
Historical linguistics // Language variation **<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>**
English, Spanish, and Portuguese **<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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