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## PREFACE Frequency studies of the components of language have always been hampered by the prodigious amount of man-hours required to make the studies extensive enough to be either valid or useful. The great semantic counts and the Lorge "Magazine Count" of the 1930's were by-products of the depression. For example, The Semantic Count of the 570 Commonest English Words by Irving Lorge employed the efforts of several hundred workers provided by the W.P.A. for a period of six years beginning in 1934. Fortunately, scores of phoneme counters were not needed to do the work on this project owing to these factors: 1. The data from the frequency counts of the past can be converted into a form more useful in present-day linguistic study. 2. Modern digital computers can now do in minutes work which would require thousands of man-hours. The original idea for this study came from Professor Frederic G. Cassidy, who suggested it to me as a possible dissertation topic and who was instrumental in obtaining the funds necessary to accomplish this investigation. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Professor Cassidy for the helpfulness and patient understanding which he showed me in his direction of t

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Author

A Hood Roberts; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG

Publisher

De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton

Published

1965

Language

EN

ISBN

9783112416426

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language