Level lists

[Matthias Stirner]

Hi Laurence,


I'm fairly new to AntWordProfiler and corpus linguistics in general,
so this might be a bit of a stupid question, but I haven't found any
info explaining this. I wondered why we need three or more seperate
level lists, and why exactly Paul Nation chose to put words and word
families into one or the other.

Trying to find out myself, I came up with this explanation:
- "nation_baseword_1.txt" contains the most common words. These might
show up in any kind of text.
- "nation_baseword_2.txt" contains less common words. If one or more
of these are found, we can make assumptions about the texts topic.
- "nation_baseword_3.txt" contains very specific words. If one or more
of these are found, we can make conclusions about the texts topic.

Is this correct? Thanks for your time reading this!


Kind regards,
Matthias

[LAnthony]

Hi Matthias,

Sorry for the delay. Yes, your assumptions are correct. The families
ideas allows the user to check inflections of words such as and 'go',
'going'.

Laurence.

On Jul 11, 9:56 pm, Matthias Stirner <matthias.stir...@googlemail.com>
wrote: