An English-French-German-Spanish: Word Frequency Dictionary
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 1961 Издание:Dover Publications Страниц: 444 ISBN: [не указан] Miss Eaton has done a notable service by preparing this semantic frequency list. The frequency lists hitherto published will be more useful as a result of her careful and scholarly compendium of parts of them. Teachers of the languages represented will find her list of prime importance in deciding how to treat the words in texts which their pupils are reading, and in their own choice of words in speaking. Teachers of other European languages (for example, Italian and Russian) may well consult the list until it is extended by adequate counts for the languages concerned. If used reasonably, the list can do nothing but good to teaching, testing, and textbook making. I commend it also to the attention of psychologists, anthropologists, and students of what has been called the psycho-biology of language. The vocabulary, active and passive, of any group is as truly an index of its nature and culture as are its tools, monuments, customs, and myths. This list gives a useful...
