Measuring the vocabulary burden of popular English songs
This study measured the vocabulary burden of popular English songs to determine what vocabulary is needed to understand 95% and 98% of the words in songs. The researcher analyzed the vocabulary in 2,175 songs, which consisted of 678,309 tokens. The results showed that knowledge of the most frequent...
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This study measured the vocabulary burden of popular English songs to determine what vocabulary is needed to understand 95% and 98% of the words in songs. The researcher analyzed the vocabulary in 2,175 songs, which consisted of 678,309 tokens. The results showed that knowledge of the most frequent 2,000 word families and proper nouns and marginal words provided 96.05% coverage, and knowledge of the most frequent 5,000 word families and proper nouns and marginal words provided 98% coverage of the English used in songs in the corpus.
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| spelling | doaj-art-c5a8316a8b0d4f25babe3ba1d56b3a842025-08-20T02:48:13ZengCastledown PublishersVocabulary Learning and Instruction2981-99542017-12-016210.7820/vli.v06.2.RomankoMeasuring the vocabulary burden of popular English songsRick Romanko0Wayo Women’s University This study measured the vocabulary burden of popular English songs to determine what vocabulary is needed to understand 95% and 98% of the words in songs. The researcher analyzed the vocabulary in 2,175 songs, which consisted of 678,309 tokens. The results showed that knowledge of the most frequent 2,000 word families and proper nouns and marginal words provided 96.05% coverage, and knowledge of the most frequent 5,000 word families and proper nouns and marginal words provided 98% coverage of the English used in songs in the corpus. https://www.castledown.com/journals/vli/article/view/1729lexical profilingpop songspopular English songstext coveragevocabulary burden |
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| title | Measuring the vocabulary burden of popular English songs |
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