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Publication details [#60367]

Brezina, Vaclav and Dana Gablasova. 2015. Is There a Core General Vocabulary? Introducing the New General Service List. Applied Linguistics 36 (1) : 1–22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | language use | universalism | vocabulary growth | word recognition

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper proposes a New General Service List (new-GSL), obtained via sturdy collation of four language corpora (LOB, BNC, BE06, and EnTenTen12) of a total amount of over 12 billion running words. The new-GSL unites core vocabulary items with new frequently occurring ones, rendering current language use, and comprises about 80 percent of the source corpora texts.