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Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English - based on the British National Corpus (Hardcover)
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Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English - based on the British National Corpus (Hardcover)
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Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English is a landmark volume
in the development of vocabulary frequency studies. Whereas
previous books have in general given frequency information about
the written language only, this book provides information on both
speech and writing. It not only gives information about the
language as a whole, but also about the differences between spoken
and written English, and between different spoken and written
varieties of the language. The frequencies are derived from a wide
ranging and up-to-date corpus of English: the British National
Corpus, which was compiled from over 4,000 written texts and spoken
transcriptions representing the present day language in the UK. The
book is based on a new version of the corpus (available from 2001)
providing more accurate grammatical information, which is essential
(for example) for distinguishing words like leaves (noun) and
leaves (verb) with different meanings. The book begins with a
general introduction, explaining why such information is important
and highlighting interesting linguistic findings that emerge from
the statistical analysis of the British National Corpus vocabulary.
It also contains twenty four 'interest boxes' which highlight and
comment on different aspects of frequency - for example, the most
common colour words in English in order of frequency, and a
comparison of male words (e.g. man) and female words (e.g. woman)
in terms of their frequency.
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