FREQUENCY DICTIONARIES
 

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American English

  • Preface: coverage; diminishing returns
     

  • Tagging/lemmatization

    • Eliminating junk/proper nouns (Eagles, NATO, Salt Lake City, Department of..., iPod, Brown, Bush Gardens)

    • Others from wordfrequency.info (100k FAQ)

    • Why separate by PoS (e.g. deal, strike)

  • Dispersion (Juilland d): see chart

  • Collocates

    • Mutual Information to get rid of high frequency words

    • Students go through 150,000 collocates, but still errors

  • Entries: format (including collocate direction, phrase verbs)

  • Call-out boxes
    • By topic
    • American / British
    • New words
    • By genre
    • Morphology
    • Phrasal verbs
    • Zipf's Law

60k lists

100k list (use it a bit)

  • What kind of words at lower levels

 

 

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Quiz

1. The design of COCA: genres

2. The design of COCA: time periods

3. Simple experiment with learners to test the validity of the list

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