LINGUIST List 11.651

Wed Mar 22 2000

Qs: Eng Word Frequency Resources, Spanish Tapes

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  • Richard Mudge, Resources for relative word frequency of English
  • D. Eric Holt, Looking for tapes to accompany A Drillbook of Spanish Pronunciation

    Message 1: Resources for relative word frequency of English

     Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:24:57 -0500
    From: Richard Mudge <mudgelij.edu>
    Subject: Resources for relative word frequency of English


    A colleague of mine is looking for resources that document the relative frequency with which various English words are used. She brought to my attention a book called "The Teacher's Wordbook of 30,000 Words" by Thorndike and Lorge. She is interested in locating a copy of this, and we would like to know if there are any more contemporary resources that serve the same purpose. We want to find these resources so that we can use them to design tasks for a functional MRI study that will look at specific areas of activation in the brain when subjects are given stimuli to test their generative capability and verbal fluency.

    Thanks - Rich

    - Richard W. Mudge Project Coordinator Cognitive Neuroscience Unit Department of Psychiatry Hillside Hospital mudgelij.edu phone: 718/470-8578 fax: 718/343-1659

    Message 2: Looking for tapes to accompany A Drillbook of Spanish Pronunciation

     Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:26:59 -0500
    From: D. Eric Holt <DEHolt01gwm.sc.edu>
    Subject: Looking for tapes to accompany A Drillbook of Spanish Pronunciation


    I'm looking for the audio tapes that accompany the book A Drillbook of Spanish Pronunciation, by Roger L. Hadlich, James S. Holton and Matias Montes (Harper & Row, 1968; out of print), but have had no luck at all (and believe me, I've tried) in tracking down copies of these. Would anyone out there happen to have copies that I might obtain, or know where I should look to do so?

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Sincerely, Eric Holt

    _____________________________________________ D. Eric Holt Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese and Program in Linguistics University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (803) 777-0798 (office) (803) 777-4884 (messages) (803) 777-7828 (fax) (803) 407-9706 (home) holtsc.edu --NEW; PLEASE UPDATE http://www.cla.sc.edu/SIP/