Corpora: Graded English Vocabulary

Pete Whitelock (pete@sharp.co.uk)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:52:01 +0100

Can anyone point me to public domain lists of English vocabulary items
graded for English learners. I know of the work on Basic English, and
Adam Kilgarriff's frequency lists for the BNC, but I'm interested in a
finer-grained classification for the commonest 3-5,000 words, as well as
gradings for the commonest multi-word expressions. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Pete

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