<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>If you look for adult-adult oral language frequencies of American English, you may want to have a look to SUBTL database.<br><br><a href="http://subtlexus.lexique.org/">http://subtlexus.lexique.org/</a><br>
<br></div>Best,<br><br></div>Christophe dos Santos<br></div>Université François-Rabelais, Tours<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-06-06 10:54 GMT+02:00 Ngoni Chipere <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngoni.chipere@gmail.com" target="_blank">ngoni.chipere@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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and explained here:<br><br><a href="http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_16_no_3/Prospect_16,3_article_1.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_16_no_3/Prospect_16,3_article_1.pdf</a><br>

<br></div>regards<br><br></div>Ngoni<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dalep@unm.edu" target="_blank">dalep@unm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<span><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal">Philip Dale<u></u><u></u></p>
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