6.0073 Rs: Portuguese Word Count Dictionaries (4/55)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 13 Jun 1992 12:01:46 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0073. Saturday, 13 Jun 1992.
(1) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 92 22:28:18 -0400 (13 lines)
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Frequency dictionaries
(2) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 07:47:08 CST (8 lines)
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: portuguese word count
(3) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 10:52 EDT (13 lines)
From: "P.Maligo" <MALIGO@MSU>
Subject: 60066 Portuguese word list
(4) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 9:13 BST (21 lines)
From: PARKINSON@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: RE: 6.0066 Qs: Portuguese word frequency list
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 92 22:28:18 -0400
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Frequency dictionaries
Careful checking of various library holdings by anonymous FTP or
INTERNET has revealed that, unfortunately, there is no Portuguese
frequency dictionary published by the Alphonse Juilland team. I have,
however, located ones for French, Spanish, Rumanian & Italian.
Some or all of these can be found at U. of California/Berkeley, Dartmouth
and several other locations I checked.
Regards,
Joel Goldfield
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 07:47:08 CST
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: portuguese word count
Milton Shane did such a word count in the 40s; I know, because I worked on
it. It has been published, I know, since I had a copy of it somewhere.
Look under Milton Shane in NUC.
Jim Marchand
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 10:52 EDT
From: "P.Maligo" <MALIGO@MSU>
Subject: 60066 Portuguese word list
Alan Fisher, MSU, forwarded your inquiry to me. I am sorry I cannot be of
much help regarding refs to literature. If you would like to try a direct
inquiry to Brazil, try my colleague Stella Tagnin <seotagni@brusp.bitnet> in
the dept of modern languages of the U. of Sao Paulo.
Good luck!
Pedro Maligo
Assistant Professor of Portuguese
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 9:13 BST
From: PARKINSON@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: RE: 6.0066 Qs: Portuguese word frequency list (1/4)
I am not aware of the Portuguese frequency dictionary promised by Juilland
ever making an appearance. There is an unpublished frequency dictionary
J.C. Duncan, *A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese Words*, PhD dissertation
Stanford, 1972
and an article
J.R. Kelly, 'A computational frequency and range list of five hundred
Brazilian Portuguese words', Luso-Brazilian Review, 7.2, 1970, pp. 104-13
which should be of use.
In addition, the published materials of the Portugues Fundamental project,
Maria Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento et al. *Portugues Fundamental. Metodos
e Documentos*, Lisbon, INIC, 1987, give a great deal of data about the
freuqnecy counts on the basis of which the select Basic Portuguese Vocabulary
was based. The main alphabetical and frequency lists, however, only include
the final vocabulary (exluding words of lower frequency).
Stephen Parkinson
Taylor Institution
Oxford University