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Words and phrases more likely in everyday speech
I'm processing a large corpus for a given language. I've noticed that for certain sections of the corpus, I can go many tens of thousands of words without the word "me" being mentioned. These are ...
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How many “words” do I need to learn?
I am interested in learning a second language. To do this I have created a list of the 1000 most common words and phrases for a given language. I've also established sentences which contains each of ...
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What mechanism of language can be used to explain competitive synonyms similar to high-frequency word?
Suppose we have two competitive synonyms A and B.
We found out that during the historical changes of the language, A gains dominant position.
We found out the fact above via a statistical survey of ...
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Word frequency list for agglutinative languages like Swahili?
I'm an intermediate Swahili speaker looking to substantially increase the size of my vocabulary over the next couple weeks. However, I want to optimize my learning curve by focusing on the first 2000 ...
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Most common english words from newspapers, books and magazines
I'd like to download a frequency list of english words that are most common in newspapers, books and magazines. It should contain at least 50 000 words.
Is it possible to download such a list from ...
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Searching for a Spanish word list for statistical analysis [closed]
I need a Spanish word list, as simple as that.
The more complete it is, the better, it should contain as many words as to be a statistically relevant sample.
It can be in any format: XML, MS Excel, ...
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What is the idea of ngram viewers working case-sensitive? [closed]
On German Language & Usage we recently had a question about the English word schmuck,
which is a false friend of the German word Schmuck.
Out of curiosity I tried the capitalized form vs the non ...
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Are there tools similar Google ngram, which recognise conjugated or declined word forms?
I just found out, that with respect to the German language, where prefixes of verbs are separated from the verb and posed behind the object, I have no chance to find out, if a verb with a prefix is ...
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What are the most commonly used Chinese syllables?
There are about 1200 or so unique (includes all tones) Mandarin Chinese syllables, according to some source I read a while back based off the Unihan database.
For my applications I'm limited to using ...
