list of common words

Thu Jun 5 15:30:18 UTC 2014

However, I don't really know what variety of English you're after, nor
genre or adult-adult or adult-child.

/Hedvig

2014-06-05 17:28 GMT+02:00 Hedvig Skirgård <hedvig.skirgard at gmail.com>:

> Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA):
> http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
> British National Corpus (BNC http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
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> /Hedvig
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> 2014-06-05 17:23 GMT+02:00 Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu>:
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>   Could you spell those out?
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>> *From:* info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:
>> info-childes at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Hedvig Skirgård
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 9:22 AM
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>> *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com
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>> You want adult-adult frequencies right? Why not just use the COCA or BNC?
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>> /Hedvig
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>> 2014-06-05 17:08 GMT+02:00 Nan Bernstein Ratner <nratner at umd.edu>:
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>> 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.
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>> Nan
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>> *From:* info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:
>> info-childes at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Philip Dale
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:06 AM
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>> *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com
>> *Subject:* RE: list of common words
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>> Yes, I’m pretty sure this is it; thanks, Nan. Did you use software to
>> determine frequencies?
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>> Philip
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>> *From:* info-childes at googlegroups.com [
>> mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com <info-childes at googlegroups.com>] *On
>> Behalf Of *Nan Bernstein Ratner
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 8:46 AM
>> *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com
>> *Subject:* RE: list of common words
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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.
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>> Best to all,
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>> Nan
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>> mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com <info-childes at googlegroups.com>] *On
>> Behalf Of *Erika Hoff
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2014 10:30 AM
>> *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com
>> *Subject:* Re: list of common words
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>> Me too.
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>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Tager-Flusberg, Helen B <htagerf at bu.edu>
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>>  Philip,
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>> I too am interested in this information ---can you send me useful replies?
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>> thanks!
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>> Helen
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>> On Jun 5, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu> wrote:
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>>   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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