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

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



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English | 2010 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0415490634 | PDF | 7 MB

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 (unscripted conversation from radio and TV shows); fiction (books, short stories, movie scripts); more than 100 popular magazines; ten newspapers; and 100 academic journals – for a total of nearly 150,000 texts.