<div dir="ltr">ho Folks<div>I was remembering something by Thorndike and Lorge. Here is some info from Wikipedia regarding 'traditional lists of word frequency": </div><div><br></div><div><h4 style="color:black;margin:0.3em 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom-style:none;font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;font-family:sans-serif;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">
<span class="" id="Traditional_lists">Traditional lists</span><span class="" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap"><span class="" style="margin-right:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);margin-left:0px">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Word_lists_by_frequency&action=edit§ion=10" title="Edit section: Traditional lists" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="" style="margin-left:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);margin-right:0px">]</span></span></h4>
<dl style="margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px"><dt style="font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:0.1em">The Teachers Word Book of 30,000 words (Thorndike and Lorge, 1944)</dt>
</dl><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">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 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Nation 1997</a>).</p>
<dl style="margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px"><dt style="font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Service_List" title="General Service List" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">The General Service List</a> (West, 1953)</dt>
</dl><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">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) (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Nation 1997</a>).</p>
<dl style="margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px"><dt style="font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:0.1em">The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (Carroll, Davies and Richman, 1971)</dt>
</dl><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">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 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Nation 1997</a>).</p>
<dl style="margin-top:0.2em;margin-bottom:0.5em;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.399999618530273px"><dt style="font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:0.1em">The Brown (Francis and Kucera, 1982) LOB and related corpora</dt>
</dl><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">These now contain 1,000,000 words from a written corpora representing different dialects of English. These sources are used to produce frequency lists (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency#CITEREFNation1997" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">Nation 1997</a>).</p>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nratner@umd.edu" target="_blank">nratner@umd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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