Word frequencies in written and spoken English : based on the British National Corpus
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Word frequencies in written and spoken English : based on the British National Corpus
Routledge, 2014, c2001
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Books of English word frequencies have in the past suffered from severe limitations of sample size and breadth. They have also tended to be restricted to word forms alone. Most importantly, almost all have dealt only with written language. This book overcomes these limitations. It is derived from the British National Corpus - a 100,000,000 word electronic databank sampled from the whole range of present-day English, spoken and written - and makes use of the grammatical information that has been added to each word in the corpus.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Frequency in the Whole Corpus (Spoken and Written English)
- Chapter 2 Spoken and Written English
- Chapter 3 Two Main Varieties of Spoken English Compared
- Chapter 4 Two Main Varieties of Writen English Compared
- Chapter 5 Rank Frequency Lists of Words within Word Classes (Parts of Speech)
- Chapter 6 Frequency Lists of Grammatical Word Classes (based on the Sampler Corpus)
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