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Vocabulary Frequency

Vocabulary Frequency is a linguistic metric that quantifies the rate at which specific lexical items occur within a given corpus or text, distinguishing it from related vocabulary measures by focusing on the distribution and recurrence of words as an indicator of their prominence and potential acquisition priority.

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389

Authors

229

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

37

Variants

Lexical Frequency

Parents

Publications

221

Moving beyond Kučera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English

Marc Brysbaert, Boris New · Behavior Research Methods · 2009 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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The American Heritage Word Frequency Book

Robert E. Warren, J. B. Carroll, Paul S. Davies et al. · The American Journal of Psychology · 1973 · 1.4K citations

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Vocabulary Size and Use: Lexical Richness in L2 Written Production

Batia Laufer, Paul Nation · Applied Linguistics · 1995 · 1.3K citations

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Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar. By W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera with the assistance of Andrew W. Mackie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1982. x + 561

Robert Burchfield · Journal of English Linguistics · 1985 · 1.2K citations

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More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases

Inbal Arnon, Neal Snider · Journal of Memory and Language · 2009 · 795 citations

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Authors

389

  1. PN
    Paul Nation

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    7 publications · 2.6K citations

    7

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  2. BL
    Batia Laufer

    University of Haifa, Israel

    4 publications · 2.3K citations

    4

    h-index

  3. PS
    Philip S. Dale

    University of New Mexico, United States

    3 publications · 1.1K citations

    3

    h-index

  4. RH
    R. Harald Baayen

    University of Tübingen, Germany

    3 publications · 128 citations

    3

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  5. GY
    George Yule

    Louisiana State University, United States

    3 publications · 529 citations

    3

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1–5 of 389

Institutions

229

  1. Victoria University of Wellington

    Wellington, New Zealand

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    2.7K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    362 citations

  3. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    171 citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

    Milwaukee, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    276 citations

  5. University of Tübingen

    Tübingen, Germany

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    331 citations

  6. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    2.2K citations

  7. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    600 citations

  8. Educational Testing Service

    Princeton, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    194 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Child Language

    8 publications · 1.4K citations

    8

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  2. Behavior Research Methods

    BRM · 7 publications · 3K citations

    7

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  3. RELC Journal

    7 publications · 395 citations

    7

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  4. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

    7 publications · 488 citations

    7

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  5. Journal of Experimental Psychology

    5 publications · 418 citations

    5

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