Smaller Breakdowns of BNC first 1000 and second 1000 word lists

[mathew armstrong]

Hello. 

I was wondering if there are already word lists that have been created that break down the first two thousand most frequent words into hundreds of words or so. I'm interested in writing a graded reader series. 

Thanks a lot. 

Best,

Mathew

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Mathew,

Sorry for the very late reply. I don't supply such a list, and it's actually quite difficult to create one yourself, because the lists are hand-built by Paul Nation.

I do have a standard BNC lemma list on my website that you could easily split into frequency lists. Perhaps this would be better for you.

https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/  

I hope that helps!

Laurence.

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[mathew armstrong]

Hi Laurence,

Thanks for your reply. That's a very good program you've made. 

I'm reading Nation's book "Making and Using Wordlists for Language Learning and Testing." I got bogged down because I had to throw all of my teaching online, but now I have a bit of time. I was doing just what you had recommended. 

Thanks a lot for getting back to me again. 

Best,

Mathew

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[Laurence Anthony]

You're very welcome! If you do produce some lists, I'd be very happy to put a link on the AWP page. I'm sure many others would be interested in using them.

Laurence.

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[mathew armstrong]

Hi there,

I will do that. I got to the first 500 and then gave it a break. I was using a 1000 word list that was based on frequency, then I was going through and making separate word lists based on Paul Nation's (it has the lemmas and derived forms as you know). I've found some inconsistencies in the two lists. I can't remember where I got the 1000 word list that's based on frequency, but I remember it being the same source that Paul Nation used for this lists. 

I'll have to get back to it. It seems that the vocabulary needed to talk about this isn't in my active vocabulary...

While I have you here, could you point me in the right direction so that I can figure out how to make word lists like Paul Nation's in other languages? Where it has the head word/lemma and then under it the derived forms?

Thanks a lot,

Mathew

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[Laurence Anthony]

For the sake of reproducibility  and scalability, I wouldn't go with lemma members and derived forms. I would just go with lemma members. Then, you can use any POS tagger to get the information you need to compose a list in any language.

Laurence.

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