FREQUENCY
DICTIONARIES
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American English
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Preface: coverage; diminishing
returns
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Tagging/lemmatization
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Eliminating junk/proper nouns
(Eagles, NATO, Salt Lake City, Department of..., iPod, Brown, Bush Gardens)
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Others from wordfrequency.info
(100k FAQ)
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Why separate by PoS (e.g.
deal, strike)
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Dispersion (Juilland d): see
chart
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Collocates
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Mutual Information to get rid of
high frequency words
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Students go through 150,000
collocates, but still errors
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Entries: format (including
collocate direction, phrase verbs)
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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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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 4. Dispersion
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