Spoken

1.00

España Oral¹

2.00

Habla Culta (ten countries)

0.35

Habla Culta (Madrid, Sevilla)

   3.35

1.35

2.00

Transcripts/
Plays

1.00

Transcripts/Interviews (congresses, press conferences, other)

1.00

Transcripts/Interviews (congresses, press conferences, other)

0.27

Interviews in the newspaper ABC

0.40

Plays

0.73

Plays

   3.40

1.67

1.73

Literature

0.06

Novels (BV²)

1.60

Novels (BV²)

0.00

Short stories (BV²)

0.87

Short stories (BV²)

0.19

Three novels (BYU³)

1.11

Twelve novels (BYU³)

2.17

Mostly novels, from LEXESP⁴

0.18

Four novels from Argentina⁵

0.20

Three novels from Chile⁶

    6.38

2.42

3.96

Texts

1.05

Newspaper ABC

3.00

Newspapers from six different countries

0.15

Essays in LEXESP⁴

0.07

Cartas (“letters”) from Argentina⁵

2.00

Encarta encyclopedia

0.30

Humanistic texts (e.g. philosophy, history from Argentina⁵⁾

0.30

Humanistic texts (e.g. philosophy, history from Chile⁶⁾

    6.87

3.20

3.67

Total

8.64

11.36

Sources:

1. Corpus oral de referencia de la lengua española contemporánea (http://elvira.lllf.uam.es/docs_es/corpus/ corpus.html)
2. The Biblioteca Virtual (http://www.cervantesvirtual.com)
3. Fifteen recent novels, acquired in electronic form from the Humanities Research Center, Brigham Young University
4. Léxico informatizado del español (http://www.edicionsub.com/coleccion.asp ?coleccion=90)
5. From the Corpus lingüístico de referencia de la lengua española en argentina (http://www.lllf.uam.es/ ~fmarcos/informes/corpus/coarginl.html)
6. From the Corpus lingüístico de referencia de la lengua española en chile (http://www.lllf.uam.es/~fmarcos/informes/corpus/cochile.html)