Is There a Core General Vocabulary? Introducing the "New General Service List"

Autor/inn/en	Brezina, Vaclav; Gablasova, Dana
Titel	Is There a Core General Vocabulary? Introducing the "New General Service List"
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 36 (2015) 1, S.1-22 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amt018
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Vocabulary; Language Usage; Word Frequency; Word Lists; Language Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Wortschatz; Sprachgebrauch; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Wortliste; Sprachforschung
Abstract	The current study presents a "New General Service List (new-GSL)", which is a result of robust comparison of four language corpora ("LOB," "BNC," "BE06," and "EnTenTen12") of the total size of over 12 billion running words. The four corpora were selected to represent a variety of corpus sizes and approaches to representativeness and sampling. In particular, the study investigates the lexical overlap among the corpora in the top 3,000 words based on the "average reduced frequency (ARF)", which is a measure that takes into consideration both frequency and dispersion of lexical items. The results show that there exists a stable vocabulary core of 2,122 items (70.7%) among the four corpora. Moreover, these vocabulary items occur with comparable ranks in the individual wordlists. In producing the "new-GSL", the core vocabulary items were combined with new items frequently occurring in the corpora representing current language use ("BE06" and "EnTenTen12"). The final product of the study, the "new-GSL", consists of 2,494 lemmas and covers between 80.1 and 81.7 per cent of the text in the source corpora. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01