Re: Corpora: male/female names list

Paul Rayson (paul@comp.lancs.ac.uk)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:42:36 +0000 (GMT)

Dear Clive,

I have 2 lists which give you half of what you want: fifty most frequent
personal names in male and female speech in the 5 million word demographic
(spoken) subcorpus of the BNC.

They are in the paper

Rayson, P., Leech, G., and Hodges, M. (1997). Social differentiation in the use
of English vocabulary: some analyses of the conversational component of the
British National Corpus. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. Volume 2,
number 1. pp 133 - 152. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

which is available at:

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/papers/rlh97.html

Regards,
Paul.