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A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates and Thematic Lists

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A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English is an invaluable tool for all learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

The dictionary is based on data from a 385 million word corpus - evenly balanced between spoken English ; fiction ; more than 100 popular magazines; ten newspapers; and 100 academic journals - for a total of nearly 150,000 texts.

All entries in the rank frequency list also feature the top 20-30 collocates for that word, which provide valuable insight into the meaning and usage. Alphabetical and part-of speech indexes are provided for ease of use. The dictionary also contains 31 thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such as family, sports, and food. New words in the language, differences between American and British English, and grammar topics like the most frequent phrasal verbs are also covered.

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English is an engaging and efficient resource enabling students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development.

A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: April 01, 2010

ISBN: 0415490634

ISBN 13: 9780415490634

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates and Thematic Lists

4.5/5 ( ratings)

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English is an invaluable tool for all learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

The dictionary is based on data from a 385 million word corpus - evenly balanced between spoken English ; fiction ; more than 100 popular magazines; ten newspapers; and 100 academic journals - for a total of nearly 150,000 texts.

All entries in the rank frequency list also feature the top 20-30 collocates for that word, which provide valuable insight into the meaning and usage. Alphabetical and part-of speech indexes are provided for ease of use. The dictionary also contains 31 thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such as family, sports, and food. New words in the language, differences between American and British English, and grammar topics like the most frequent phrasal verbs are also covered.

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English is an engaging and efficient resource enabling students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development.

A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: April 01, 2010

ISBN: 0415490634

ISBN 13: 9780415490634

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