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Equivalents to the General Service List
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| Author: | Zoe Handley | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Applied Linguistics
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| Summary: |
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 |
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| LL Issue: | 20.513 | |
| Date Posted: | 18-Feb-2009 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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