list of common words

[Brian MacWhinney]

It would be interesting to compare p-lex with voc-d.  The former, devised by Meara and Bell compares small samples against standardized corpora; the latter devised by Malvern, Richards, and colleagues, and implemented inside CLAN as the VOCD program focuses more on Monte Carlo estimation from small samples.  I wonder if anyone has ever attempted this interesting comparison.  The book describing VOCD is:

Malvern, D., Richards, B., Chipere, N., & Purán, P. (2004). Lexical diversity and language development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ngoni, given that you were a co-author on this book about VOCD, could you tell us why you think that p-lex might be more useful than VOCD for this purpose?

Many thanks,

--Brian MacWhinney

On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Ngoni Chipere <ngoni.chipere at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might want to have a look at Paul Meara's p_lex program, dowloadable here:
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> http://www.lognostics.co.uk/tools/index.htm
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> and explained here:
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> http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_16_no_3/Prospect_16,3_article_1.pdf
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> regards
> 
> Ngoni
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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu> wrote:
> 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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> Philip Dale
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