list of common words

[Roberta L Corrigan]

Hi Phil, 
   Do you know about Coh-Metrix? This is an alternative readability measure that has been underdevelopment for many years by Danielle McNamara and Art Graesser. Here's a link to an Educational Researcher article that describes the measure: http://edr.sagepub.com/content/40/5/223.short You can also Google on Coh-metrix and find tons of information on it. 

Bobbi Corrigan

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From: Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu>
To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
Sent: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:36:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: RE: list of common words

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.
Philip Dale

From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Javier
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 8:32 AM
To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: list of common words

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):

freq +y +o your_passage.txt

Hope this helps,
Javier


El jueves, 5 de junio de 2014 16:19:31 UTC+2, Dale, Philip escribió:
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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