A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge Frequency Dictionaries)

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This resource also aids learners with their Spanish pronunciation by providing phonetic alphabet translations for the entries. The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the First Reliable Monitor Corpus of English". Literary and Linguistic Computing 25: 447-65. The Historical Development of Subject Raising in Portuguese: A Corpus-Based Approach". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 100:95-110. Advanced research on syntactic and semantic change with the Corpus del Español". In Romance Corpus Linguistics II: Corpora and Diachronic Linguistics, ed. Claus Pusch, et al. Guntar Naar. 203-14. Reprinted in: Corpus Linguistics. Critical Concepts in Linguistics (6 vols.). Ed. Teubert, Wolfgang & Ramesh Krishnamurthy. London: Routledge. 337-48 (Volume 5). Using (and useful) corpora for the study of the history of English". In Teaching the History of the English Language, eds. Chris Palmer and Colette Moore. MLA Options for Teaching Series.

Semantically-based queries with a joint BNC/WordNet database". In Corpus Linguistics Twenty-five Years On, ed. Roberta Facchinetti. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 149-167. Sorting them all out: Exploring the separable phrasal verbs of English." System 76: 197-209. (With Dee Gardner) Analyzing Syntactic Variation with Computer-Based Corpora: The Case of Modern Spanish Clitic Climbing". Hispania 78:370-380. Esto es ligero de fazer: Object to Subject Raising in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish". In Structure, Meaning, and Acquisition of Spanish, ed. James F. Lee, et al. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 19-31. spanish sentences sorted by their words' frequency--that is, from the easiest (most simple) to the hardest.

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What students need (and want): semantically-oriented queries in large online corpora". SYNAPS (Bergen) 24: 27-40. Google Scholar vs. COCA: two very different approaches to examining academic English". Journal of English for Academic Purposes 12: 155-165. and larger word lists based on www.opensubtitles.org for Spanish and other languages (CC BY-SA-4.0) The importance of robust corpora in providing more realistic descriptions of variation in English grammar". In Linguistic Vanguard (peer-reviewed online journal from Mouton de Gruyter) Examining syntactic variation in English: the importance of corpus design and corpus size". English Language and Linguistics 19 (3): 1-35.

That means if you understand between 7,500 and 10,500 Spanish words, you’re probably doing pretty well with the four components of language learning. But you don’t have to know them all. In fact, knowing just 5-7% of a language’s vocabulary lets you understand about 90-95% of it. More than a peephole: Using large and diverse online corpora". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15: 405-11.Every verb is presented in its infinitive version alongside the present tense conjugations. That way, you not only study the individual words but start learning how to actually use them. The Effect of Representativeness and Size in Historical Corpora: An Empirical Study of Changes in Lexical Frequency." In Studies in the History of the English Language VII: Generalizing vs. particularizing methodologies in historical linguistic analysis, eds. Don Chapman, Colette Moore, and Miranda Wilcox. Berlin: De Gruyter / Mouton. 131-50. (With Don Chapman) A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Constitución de corpus crecientes del español". In Giovanni Parodi, Pascual Cantos, Chad Howe. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics. (With Giovanni Parodi)

If olive oil is made of olives, then what’s baby oil made of? The shifting semantics of Noun+Noun sequences in American English." In J. Egbert & P. Baker (Eds.), Using corpus methods to triangulate linguistic analysis, New York: Routledge. 163-84. (With Jesse Egbert) If you’re feeling confident, use the frequency dictionary as a resource to begin or elevate your Spanish writing practice. Choose a certain number of words from the frequency dictionary and write a poem, letter or story using those words as focal points. Un corpus anotado de 100.000.000 palabras del español histórico y moderno". SEPLN 2002 (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural). 21-27. The wordfreq Python library contains large frequency lists for 40+ languages. (Data under various licence conditions, some of which may be incompatible with Wiktionary.) The Evolution of Spanish Clitic Climbing: A Corpus-Based Approach." Studia Neophilologica 69:251-63.Synchronic and Diachronic Uses of Corpora". In Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics: Connections & Controversies, eds. Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 63-80. This Spanish frequency dictionary by Mark Davies contains the 5,000 most commonly used words in the Spanish language, each with an English translation and a sample sentence. Exploring the Composition of the Web: A Corpus-based Taxonomy of Web Registers". Corpora 10 (1): 11-45. (With Douglas Biber and Jesse Egbert)