Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English. This item is unavailable.Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English

 Books of English word frequencies have in the past suffered from severe limitations of sample size and breadth. They have also tended to be restricted to word forms alone. Most importantly, almost all have dealt only with written language. This book overcomes these limitations. It is derived from the British National Corpus - a 100,000,000 word electronic databank sampled from the whole range of present-day English, spoken and written - and makes use of the grammatical information that has been added to each word in the corpus.

Geoffrey Leech collaborated in the compilation of the British National Corpus 1991-95 and is a member of the current British National Corpus Committee. A senior figure in the field of linguistics and the English language he has authored, co-authored and co-edited more than 20 books on linguistics and the English language.

Paul Rayson is a research fellow in the Department of Computing, Lancaster University and has written several articles on corpus linguistics.

Andrew Wilson teaches computer corpus linguistics, in the Department of Lingustics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University and has written widely in the area of corpus linguistics.