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

This book addressed limitations of earlier word frequency dictionaries of English, that of sample size and breadth by using a large representative corpus of up-to-date written, and importantly, spoken language.

Abstract

<P><EM>Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English</EM><STRONG> </STRONG>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 Na