list of common words

Thu Jun 5 15:33:15 UTC 2014

COCA and BNC are both based on the Brown corpus structure, and much larger.

/Hedvig

2014-06-05 17:30 GMT+02:00 Shelley Brundage <shelley.brundage at gmail.com>:

> ho Folks
> I was remembering something by Thorndike and Lorge.  Here is some info
> from Wikipedia regarding 'traditional lists of word frequency":
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> 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)
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> 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)
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> 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)
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> 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
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> 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>).
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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner <nratner at umd.edu>
> wrote:
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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
>> *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com
>> *Subject:* Re: list of common words
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>> Me too.
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>> Erika
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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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>> thanks!
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>> Helen
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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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