FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH USAGE: LEXICON AND GRAMMAR

By W. Francis, H. Kucera, Andrew Mackie. 1983

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Literal salience in on-line processing of idiomatic expressions by second language learners (2006, background): “the word MARRY was an idiomatic target constructed for the sentence ‘Peter was planning to tie the knot later that month’) and of its control (unrelated) word, which was matched on frequency (Francis and Kucera, 1989), orthographic complexity, and length with the idiomatic target (e.”
Author's personal copy Theories of spoken word recognition deficits in Aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking and computational modeling (2011, unknown): “There 3 Each word’s frequency count in the Brown corpus (Francis & Kucera, 1982), the Wall Street Journal corpus (Mitchell, Santorini & Marcinkiewicz, 1993), and the SWITCHBOARD corpus (Godfrey, Holliman & McDaniel, 1992), was obtained.”
Functional-anatomic correlates of remembering and knowing (2004, unknown): “The three lists were equated for (1) word length (range: 3 – 13 letters; mean = 6.3), (2) word frequency based on norms reported by Francis and Kucera (1982) (range: 1 – 352 instances per million; mean = 18), and (3) for the PictureA and PictureB lists, picture width (range: 0.8 – 8.0j visual…”
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC2007) (2007, background): “005 percent of the time in our previous text files or were not listed in Francis and Kucera’s (1982) Frequency Analysis of English Usage were excluded.”
Perirhinal cortex supports encoding and familiarity-based recognition of novel associations. (2008, background): “Stimuli were 576 four-to six-letter English nouns with moderate to high word frequency (10–1000 occurrences per million; Kucera and Francis, 1967), combined to form 288 novel noun pairs.”
Taboo words and reprimands elicit greater autonomic reactivity in a first language than in a second language (2003, methodology): “The positive, negative, and neutral English words had a mean frequency of 127 occurrences per million words and did not differ from each other in word frequency, as measured using the Francis and Kucera (1982) database.”
The effect of keeping vocabulary notebooks on vocabulary acquisition (2009, background): “In a study conducted to test the Involvement Load Hypothesis, Hulstijn and Laufer (2001) compared the vocabulary retention of EFL learners exposed to tasks with different involvement loads; they found that the tasks for which the involvement load was higher resulted in better retention of vocabulary”
ASSESSING ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ELDERLY: POLIZZI'S REFINED VERSION OF THE AGING SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL (2003, methodology): “A book entitled Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar by Francis and Kucera (1982) was used to obtain frequencies of use for all of the adjectives considered for this study.”
Semantic Degradation and Lexical Access in Age-Related Naming Failures (2000, background): “In a footnote, Nicholas et al. (1997) pointed out that the average printed word frequency ranges ( Francis & Kucera, 1982 ) of object names on the BNT are equivalent to those of the present participle action names (e.g., running) on the ANT.”
Gender Differences in Vocal Accommodation: (2002, methodology): “Stimuli were all low frequency (indexed as less than 100 occurrences per million, M = 36) bisyllabic words chosen from Francis and Kucera (1982) norms.”