Chapter 2
Other major projects on vocabulary control
Article outline
- 2.1Word-lists for pedagogical purposes
- 2.1.1The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (1971)
- 2.1.2The Threshold Level English (1975)
- 2.1.3The Cambridge English Lexicon (1980)
- 2.1.4Word-lists from popular corpora: the Brown (1967), the LOB (1978), the Bank of English (1991), and the BNC (1990s)
- 2.1.5The University Word List (1984)
- 2.1.6The Academic Word List (2000)
- 2.1.7The Common Core Vocabulary (2002)
- 2.1.8A New Academic Vocabulary List (2013)
- 2.1.9A New General Service List (2013)
- 2.2The GSL against other word-lists and corpora
- 2.3Controlled vocabularies for professional and human-computer communications
- 2.3.1Controlled English for writing service manuals
- 2.3.2Text production for machine translation
- 2.4Identifying a core vocabulary
- 2.5Wierzbicka’s Natural Semantic Metalanguage and relevant projects
- 2.5.1Natural Semantic Metalanguage
- 2.5.2A primitive-based dictionary
- 2.5.3Minimal English
- 2.5.4Defining with primitives for cross-linguistic comparison
- 2.6Summary
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Notes