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Publication details [#32356]
Schmitt, Norbert and Svenja Adolphs. 2003. Lexical Coverage of Spoken Discourse. Applied Linguistics 24 (4) : 425–438. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
0142-6001
Journal WWW
Annotation
The results of this analysis of a modern corpus of spoken English (the CANCODE corpus) and of the spoken component of the British National Corpus suggest that more vocabulary than 2,000 word families is necessary in order to engage in everyday spoken English discourse.