list of common words

Thu Jun 5 15:48:59 UTC 2014

You should use COCA or BNC depending on whether you're looking at a
American or British variety

There are different ways of counting frequency, and you might not be
interested in all the material in COCA/BNC, so be aware of the proportions
of genres, speakers etc.

If you want to learn more about frequencies in the BNC, go here:
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/using/index.xml?ID=other#freq

/Hedvig

2014-06-05 17:42 GMT+02:00 Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu>:

>  Thanks so much. I should have been clearer at the outset. In this case,
> I’m interested in adult-adult speech (for adult-child speech, as in
> Goodman, Dale & Li, 2008, we used a FREQ analysis of CHILDES corpora).
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> COCA looks the best, as it actually has word frequencies. On first
> examination, BNC is just the corpora, and you’d have to do the analyses
> yourself. But I might be wrong here.
>
> Philip
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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 9:29 AM
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> *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: list of common words
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> 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
> *Subject:* Re: list of common words
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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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> *From:* info-childes at googlegroups.com [
> 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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> Erika
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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Tager-Flusberg, Helen B <htagerf at bu.edu>
> wrote:
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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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