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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks to everyone for all their help and suggestions. Clearly there are many ways in which frequency can important, depending on the research questions. The
immediate stimulus for my message was not particularly about child language; I just assumed that there would be lots of expertise on this list, and I was right! I’m actually interested in using proportion of rare words (either as a dichotomy, or a mean level
of frequency in the corpus database) as a potential ‘semantic’ aspect of readability of text not captured by most existing measures which primarily use word and sentence length. We’ll also be looking at syntactic complexity, especially in terms of independent
clauses and temporal/causal/hierarchical structure. Ultimately the goal is to clarify individual differences in reading ability.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Philip Dale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> info-childes@googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Javier<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 06, 2014 8:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> info-childes@googlegroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: list of common words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since you are mentioning 'a software available to scan a passage', and considering that we are in info-childes (and to my knowledge nobody mentioned it here) this simple command (assuming that your passage is saved in plain txt) would pool
out a list of words in the passage (sorted by descending frequency):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">freq +y +o your_passage.txt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Javier<o:p></o:p></p>
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El jueves, 5 de junio de 2014 16:19:31 UTC+2, Dale, Philip escribió:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Philip Dale<o:p></o:p></p>
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