Subtlex-UK: A New and Improved Word Frequency Database for British English

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Measuring the Diversity of Automatic Image Descriptions (2018, background): “We know that word frequencies follow a Zipﬁan (or power law ) distribution (Zipf, 1949; Van Heuven et al., 2014; Corral et al., 2015), which means that a small subset of the vocabulary accounts for the largest part of the data.”
The Word Frequency Effect in Word Processing: An Updated Review (2018, methodology): “To include words with zero frequencies, we recommend also using a Laplace transformation, as documented in van Heuven et al. (2014).”
Frequency in lexical processing (2016, background): “…brings us to a fundamental problem for a general frequency “norm” (such as proposed by Carroll, 1970; independently nearly half a century later by Van Heuven et al., 2014), namely that it presupposes an ideal native speaker whose language input is properly sampled by the corpus onwhich the…”