14.3261, Qs: English Word Frequency; French/Polish Speakers

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Subject: 14.3261, Qs: English Word Frequency; French/Polish Speakers

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1)
Date:  Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:06:08 -0500 (EST)
From:  William Morris <william at bangel.demon.co.uk>
Subject:  Working vocabulary size

2)
Date:  Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:24:40 -0500 (EST)
From:  Natalia Slaska <natalia.slaska at sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject:  French / Polish speakers in the UK

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:06:08 -0500 (EST)
From:  William Morris <william at bangel.demon.co.uk>
Subject:  Working vocabulary size

I understand that to learn English, a vocabulary of about 3000 words
is sufficient.  Is a list of such high frequency words available
somewhere? Are there similar lists available for other languages (eg
Spanish)?

Subject-Language: English; Code: ENG


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:24:40 -0500 (EST)
From:  Natalia Slaska <natalia.slaska at sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject:  French / Polish speakers in the UK

I'm a PhD student in the department of English Language and
Linguistics at  the University of Sheffield.  As part of my research,
I need to collect some data from French and Polish native speakers
who spent at least the first twelve years of their life in France /
Poland and at least the last two years in the UK.

If you are French or Polish, and would be willing to participate in my
study, I'd be extremely grateful if you could email me:
natalia.slaska at shef.ac. uk.

My data-collection entails sending each speaker a list of 207 concepts
in English and asking for the French / Polish equivalents.  The
concepts are all basic items (colours, animals, parts of the body,
etc.)and it takes about 30 minutes to work through all of them.

Many thanks in advance.

Natalia Slaska
PhD Student
Department of English Language and Linguistics
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S10 2TN
UK

http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/research/personnel/natalia.html

Subject-Language: French;Polish; Code: PQL

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