Hunston (67-79)

1. Frequency
   1. BNC / TIME / American Corpus
   2. Wordsmith
   3. WordCruncher
   4. Range
   5. Relational databases
2. How much difference between different genres/registers?
3. Frequency dictionaries
   1. Frequency, range, dispersion
   2. Relationship to textbook vocabulary
4. Collocations and collocates
   1. Different measures: z-score, t-score, mutual information score
   2. How much does the span affect results?
   3. Directionality of span (leak, drift, pretty, dramatic)

Software

• WordSmith
• WordCruncher
• RANGE (Paul Nation)
• BNC Wordlists
  • Flat files
  • Kilgarriff
  • WordSmith

Comparisons

• Genesis vs Bible
• Book of Mormon vs Bible
• Alma vs Book of Mormon
• General Conference vs BNC
• Specific General Authorities vs General Conference