list of common words

Thu Jun 5 15:30:31 UTC 2014

ho Folks
I was remembering something by Thorndike and Lorge.  Here is some info from
Wikipedia regarding 'traditional lists of word frequency":

Traditional lists[edit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Word_lists_by_frequency&action=edit&section=10>
]The Teachers Word Book of 30,000 words (Thorndike and Lorge, 1944)

The TWB contains 30,000 lemmas or ~13,000 word families (Goulden, Nation
and Read, 1990). A corpus of 18,000,000 written words was hand analysed.
The size of its inputted corpus increased its usefulness, but its age and
language change reduced its applicability (Nation 1997
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997>).
The General Service List
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Service_List> (West,
1953)

The GSL contains 2,000 headwords divided into two sets of 1,000 words. A
corpus of 5,000,000 written words was analysed in the 1940s. Rate of
occurrence (%) for different meanings and parts of speech of the headword
are provided, while it was also a careful application of the various
criteria other than frequency and range. Thus, despite its age, some
errors, and its solely written base, it is still an excellent database
(word frequency, frequency of meanings, reduction of noise) (Nation 1997
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997>).
The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (Carroll, Davies and Richman,
1971)

A corpus of 5,000,000 running words, from written texts used in United
States schools (various grades, various subject areas). Its value is in its
focus on school teaching materials, and its tagging of words, namely the
frequency of each word in each of the school grade levels and in each of
the subject areas (Nation 1997
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997>).
The Brown (Francis and Kucera, 1982) LOB and related corpora

These now contain 1,000,000 words from a written corpora representing
different dialects of English. These sources are used to produce frequency
lists (Nation 1997
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997>).

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner <nratner at umd.edu>
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>  I think this is what folks want. My memory is that it was prepared by
> Patton Tabors of Harvard Grad School of Ed; we have used it in a few
> studies. I hope this attachment will go through. I do not know if there are
> others; this is the one we have used.
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> Best to all,
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> Nan
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> *From:* info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:
> info-childes at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Erika Hoff
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 10:30 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: list of common words
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> Me too.
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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Tager-Flusberg, Helen B <htagerf at bu.edu>
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>  Philip,
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> I too am interested in this information ---can you send me useful replies?
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> On Jun 5, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu> wrote:
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>    I have the memory that there is a list somewhere of the 3000 (?) most
> common words in English, which can be used by exclusion to measure the use
> of ‘rare’ words. Can someone point me to that list? Even better, is there
> software available to scan a passage and compute the number of common vs.
> rare wrods?  Many thanks.
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