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Vocabulary range and text coverage. Insights from the forthcoming Routledge Frequency Dictionary of Spanish (2005)
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Mark Davies
| Venue: | Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium |
| Citations: | 3 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Davies05vocabularyrange,
author = {Mark Davies},
title = {Vocabulary range and text coverage. Insights from the forthcoming Routledge Frequency Dictionary of Spanish},
booktitle = {Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium},
year = {2005},
pages = {106--115}
}
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Abstract
An important question for natural language researchers, general linguists, and even teachers and students is how much text coverage can be achieved with a certain number of lexemes in a given language. In studies such as National (2000), we find that the top 1000 lexemes in English account for
