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Nation, Paul, John Read and Robin Goulden. 1990. How Large Can a Receptive Vocabulary Be? Applied Linguistics 11 (4) : 341–363.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
L1-acquisition | vocabulary growth
Language as a subject
English
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
0142-6001
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

It is suggested that the vocabulary of well-educated adult native speakers of English consists of around 17.000 basic words.