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Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus.

Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson, Andrew Wilson

(2001) pp. 320, Longman, London. ISBN 0582-32007-0 (Paperback)

Description Books of English word frequencies have in the past suffered from severe limitations of sample size and breadth. They have also tended to be restricted to word forms alone. Most importantly, almost all have dealt only with written language. This book overcomes these limitations. It is derived from the British National Corpus - a 100,000,000 word electronic databank sampled from the whole range of present-day English, spoken and written - and makes use of the grammatical information that has been added to each word in the corpus.

Key features Includes frequencies for present-day speech (including everyday conversation) as well as for writing

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Based on the British National Corpus:

BNC logo The frequency data is based on the British National Corpus. The BNC project was carried out and is managed by an industrial/academic consortium lead by Oxford University Press, of which the other members are major dictionary publishers Addison-Wesley Longman and Larousse Kingfisher Chambers; academic research centres at Oxford University Computing Services, Lancaster University's Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, and the British Library's Research and Innovation Centre.

Review of this book:

This book has been reviewed in the Language Awareness Journal:

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: Based on the British National Corpus. Hunston, Susan (Review of: Leech, Geoffrey; Rayson, Paul; Wilson, Andrew), Language Awareness, 2002, 11, 2, 152-157. Direct link: http://www.multilingual-matters.net/la/011/0143/la0110143.pdf


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