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- Subject: Re: Help! Low frequency words
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:17:00 GMT
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- >Hi all,
- >Can any of you correct or confirm the Francis & Kucera, 1982, book
- >called 'Frequency analysis of english usage'? Here in the UK there are two
- >books called 'Frequency analysis of English Vocabulary and Grammer: Based on
- >the LOB Corpus V1: Tag frequencies and word frequencies', and 'V2: Tag
- >combination and word combinations' by Johansson and Hofland, 1989. Are these
- >similar to the one by Francis and Kucera?
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- They are similar. The Francis and Kucera book is a frequency analysis of
- American English. The Johansson and Hofland book is of British English.
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- BTW, I'm looking for anyone in the UK or elsewhere who knows something about a
- BBC show hosted by Jenny (Ginny?) Jones. She was recently on our campus with
- her film crew doing a piece on Washoe and the others in the Chimpanzee-Human
- Communication Institute. I'd like to know what the show is like? Thanks.
-
- Don
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