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Direct linkNation, I. S. P. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2006
This article has two goals: to report on the trialling of fourteen 1,000 word-family lists made from the British National Corpus, and to use these lists to see what vocabulary size is needed for unassisted comprehension of written and spoken English. The trialling showed that the lists were properly sequenced and there were no glaring omissions…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Databases, Computational Linguistics, Reading Comprehension
