list of common words

[Christophe dos Santos]

If you look for adult-adult oral language frequencies of American English,
you may want to have a look to SUBTL database.

http://subtlexus.lexique.org/

Best,

Christophe dos Santos
Université François-Rabelais, Tours



2014-06-06 10:54 GMT+02:00 Ngoni Chipere <ngoni.chipere at gmail.com>:

> You might want to have a look at Paul Meara's p_lex program, dowloadable
> here:
>
> http://www.lognostics.co.uk/tools/index.htm
>
> and explained here:
>
>
> http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_16_no_3/Prospect_16,3_article_1.pdf
>
> regards
>
> Ngoni
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <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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