20.513, Sum: Equivalents to the General Service List

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Date: 18-Feb-2009
From: Zoe Handley < zoe.handley at nottingham.ac.uk >
Subject: Equivalents to the General Service List
 

	
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From: Zoe Handley [zoe.handley at nottingham.ac.uk]
Subject: Equivalents to the General Service List

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Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 20.198                                                                                                                                                
 

Dear Linguist List Readers,

A few weeks ago, I posted a request for references and links to equivalents
of West's (1953) General Service List, a frequency ordered list of basic
English vocabulary for the following languages. 

Here is a summary of responses:

-	French
Gougenheim's Francais Fondamental 
Gougenheim, G., Michéa, R., Rivenc, P., Sauvageot, A. 1956 / 1964.
L'Elaboration du Français Fondamental (1er degré). Paris: Didier.
Gougenheim, G., Rivenc, P., Hassan, M. 1964. Le français fondamental.
Tendances Nouvelles en Matière de Recherche Linguistique. L'Education en
Europe, 5/2, p.72.
Gougenheim, G. 1958 / 1977. Dictionnaire Fondamental de la Langue
Française. Paris: Didier.

Web resources
http://www.educalire.net/LectFrequence.htm
http://www.lexique.org/listes/liste_mots.php 

-	Spanish
http://vocabularywiki.pbwiki.com/Spanish+word+frequency+lists

-	Italian
http://osdir.com/ml/science.linguistics.corpora/2007-02/msg00064.html

-	Chinese
Dictionary of Usage Frequency of Modern Chinese Words IMPRINT. Beijing:
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Press DATE: 1990 
Wang, Huan (1986) Dictionary of the frequency of vocabulary in modern
Chinese. Beijing : Beijing Languages Institute Press.
	Frequency dictionary of Chinese words. The Hague, Mouton, 1973.
Rousseau and Zhang (1992) Zipf's data on the frequency of Chinese words
revisited. Scientometrics.  24 (2)
http://www.cicling.org/2006/Proceedings/LNCS-3878-Page105.pdf 

-	Various languages
Eaton (1961) An English, French, German, Spanish Word Frequency Dictionary:
A Correlation of the First Six Thousand Words in Four Single-language
Frequency Lists. New York: Dover.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists
http://www.lexiteria.com/database/word_frequency_list.html (commercial)

-	Software for estimating the frequency of words in a corpus
http://3d2f.com/programs/29-203-hermetic-word-frequency-counter-download.shtml

Further to the above, it was suggested that the Common European Framework
includes word lists - unfortunately, I have not managed to find them as yet.

Thanks to Michael Alvarez-Pereyre, Carmela Chateau, Alex Boulton and Israel
Cohen for their contributions.

Zoe Handley 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics






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