Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English

Author: Geoffrey Leech

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1317882040

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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.

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English

Author: Geoffrey Leech

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1317882059

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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.

Frequency in Language
Frequency in Language

Author: Dagmar Divjak

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107085756

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Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Focus on Vocabulary Learning
Focus on Vocabulary Learning

Author: Marlise Horst

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 019400290X

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Focus on Vocabulary Learning explores teaching vocabulary to second and foreign language learners aged 5–18. It describes the considerable challenges of learning the vocabulary of a new language from a range of perspectives, and aims to equip teachers with practical solutions to meet these challenges. This book provides corpus-informed insights into teaching the vocabulary that is most useful to learners, and examines classroombased research to identify effective learning strategies. A rich variety of practical activities and examples from real classrooms link theory to practice. ‘Focus on Vocabulary Learning provides valuable guidance on a wide range of topics related to vocabulary teaching and learning in school contexts. The connections between current research findings and useful classroom strategies are very helpful. This engaging and accessible book should become an excellent resource for teachers.’ Stuart Webb, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Western Ontario

Text Mining with R
Text Mining with R

Author: Julia Silge

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2017-06-12

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1491981628

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Chapter 7. Case Study : Comparing Twitter Archives; Getting the Data and Distribution of Tweets; Word Frequencies; Comparing Word Usage; Changes in Word Use; Favorites and Retweets; Summary; Chapter 8. Case Study : Mining NASA Metadata; How Data Is Organized at NASA; Wrangling and Tidying the Data; Some Initial Simple Exploration; Word Co-ocurrences and Correlations; Networks of Description and Title Words; Networks of Keywords; Calculating tf-idf for the Description Fields; What Is tf-idf for the Description Field Words?; Connecting Description Fields to Keywords; Topic Modeling.

Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Author: Joan Bybee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-12-07

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0198041292

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This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance off frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. Her work has been very influential for a broad range of researchers in linguistics, particularly in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonology, phonetics, and historical linguistics.

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish
A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish

Author: Mark Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-05-17

Total Pages: 763

ISBN-13: 1134314191

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The only up-to-date frequency dictionary of Spanish currently available, this is an invaluable tool for all learners of Spanish that provides a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty million word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America, the Dictionary provides a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes to ensure maximum ease of access to the information and efficiency of use. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence and, where applicable, an indication of major register variation. The Dictionary also contains thirty thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics, such as animals, weather, materials, and family terms. A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work