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Summary: English word frequency
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| Author: | Alex Zheltuhin | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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Language Documentation
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10 days ago I posted a query about recent English word frequency lists. Counter my expectations, I received very few references to the relevant on-line resources. I would like to thank the following Linguist subscribers for their kind responses: Julie Vonwiller Lynn Santelmann Timothy Jay Barbara Pearson Marie C. Egan Suggestions that I received are given below in no particular order. Julie Vonwiller: Most of the major newspapers have their papers on line. Word frequencies would be available that way. Otherwise check the comp.speech site for references. I think they list that kind of thing. Also most dictionary publishing forms have web sites now. Lynn Santelmann: If you go to the Website for the linguist list, they have links to several on-line sources for word frequency. The LDC at UPenn is the first that comes to mind, but there are others too. Timothy Jay: I have a chapter on word frequency in CURSING IN AMERICA (1992, John Benjamins Pub Co - 1-800-562-5666). My research indicates how frequency estimates exclude the usage of offensive words, along with general problems of estimating word usage. Barbara Pearson and Marie C. Egan referred to Francis, W. N. & Kucera, H. (1982). Frequency analysis of English usage: Lexicon and grammar. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. I would like to extend this list of suggestions with additional references of interest: Kucera, H. & Francis, W. N. (1967). Computational analysis of present-day American English. Providence, RI: Brown University Press. Bloom, P.A., & Fishler, I. (1980). Completion norms for 329 sentence contexts. Memory and Cognition, 8, 631-642. On letter/bigram/trigram frequency see: Solso, R. L., & King, J. F. (1976). Frequency and versatility of letters in the Endlish language. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 8, 283-286. Solso, R. L., Barbuto, P. F. & Juel, C. L. (1979). Bigram and trigram frequency and versatility in the English language. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 11, 475-484. Web sites: http://rreck.sealsoft.com/landtools.html There is a link to this site on the Linguist's web page. HCRC Map Task Corpus (150,000 tokens) http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsnet/Resources/Map-Task/mt_corpus.html ARTFL Project Word Frequency Search Form at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ARTFL.wl.html Statistics gathered for the most frequent words found on Usenet in 1992: www.sc.pdx.edu/~kenrick/cs350/assignments/program1/html A follow-up on Kucera & Francis study: http://hotspur.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Online/paivio/density.html I am very much looking forward to further references and suggestions on the subject. If I receive additional information, I will certainly update the summary. And once again, many thanks to those who responded! Regards, Alexander Zheltukhin, Ph.D. alexz@amber.gatech.edu |
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| LL Issue: | 9.258 | |
| Date Posted: | 22-Feb-1998 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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