list of common words

Thu Jun 5 15:29:40 UTC 2014

OK, I am attaching Beals and Tabors, which explains the file and how it was constructed; since it was to look at rare words as defined by speech children are more likely to hear, the list was derived by using a list that Chall and Dale composed, based on 4th grade vocabulary. Like Philip, I have no idea what those other lists or resources are, but if you want to look at CDS, this list has a reasonable pedigree.

Nan

From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Philip Dale
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Could you spell those out?

From: info-childes at googlegroups.com<mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Hedvig Skirgård
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You want adult-adult frequencies right? Why not just use the COCA or BNC?

/Hedvig

2014-06-05 17:08 GMT+02:00 Nan Bernstein Ratner <nratner at umd.edu<mailto:nratner at umd.edu>>:
We did what the earlier posting suggested, filtered our child-addressed speech samples through this in CLAN (e.g., -s at lexrare), and then additionally cleaned up proper names for a proportion of maternal/paternal input that consisted of relatively rare words.

Nan

From: info-childes at googlegroups.com<mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com<mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Philip Dale
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Yes, I’m pretty sure this is it; thanks, Nan. Did you use software to determine frequencies?
Philip

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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.

Best to all,
Nan

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Me too.

Erika

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Tager-Flusberg, Helen B <htagerf at bu.edu<mailto:htagerf at bu.edu>> wrote:
Philip,
I too am interested in this information ---can you send me useful replies?

thanks!
Helen
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On Jun 5, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu<mailto: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.
Philip Dale

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