LINGUIST List: Vol-9-291. Thu Feb 26 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.
Subject: 9.291, Sum: English Word Frequency #2
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:50:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Zheltuhin <alexz at amber.biology.gatech.edu>
Subject: Sum. English Word Frequency (Update)
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:50:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Zheltuhin <alexz at amber.biology.gatech.edu>
Subject: Sum. English Word Frequency (Update)
Dear Linguists,
Since I posted the summary on English Word Frequency Lists, I have
received new valuable references:
Carroll, John, ed. 1971. The American Heritage Word Frequency Book.
NY: Houghton Mifflin.
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Semantic frequency list for English, French, German, and Spanish; a
correlation of the first six thousand words in four single-language
frequency lists, compiled by Helen S. Eaton. Issued by the Committee
on modern languages of the American council on education. Eaton, Helen
Slocomb, 1887-
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British National Corpus
Info:
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff
Materials:
ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/pub/bnc
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CELEX Lexical Database: Dutch, English, German. CD-ROM. Nijmegen:
Centre for Lexical Information, 1993.--This CD-ROM is based on the
COBUILD Corpus, and it distinguishes parts of speech, so _run_ (verb)
is separated from _run_ (noun).
http://www.kun.nl/celex/
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Many thanks to the contributors of this list of references:
Juhani Jarvikivi
Betty S. Phillips
Arian J.C. Verheij
Sondra Ahlen
Z.S. Bond
Best wishes,
Alexander Zheltukhin, Ph.D.
alexz at amber.gatech.edu
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