This article reports on an analysis of a small corpus of fiction written for children, extracted from the BNC. Quantitative analyses of most frequent words and sequences of words, and of parts-of-speech, were conducted, and compared with their equivalents in two other sub-corpora of the BNC, of adult fiction and of newspaper texts. The main findings point to some characteristics of both the fiction corpora which are very similar, and which contrast markedly with the news texts. However, more nuanced comparison of concordance lines in which the frequent items occur reveal subtle but telling differences between their use in context in adult fiction and in fiction written for children.
2024. What Types of Vocabulary Do Students Learn? A Computer-assisted Study of EFL Textbooks. AsiaCALL Online Journal 15:1 ► pp. 117 ff.
Korochkina, Maria, Marco Marelli, Marc Brysbaert & Kathleen Rastle
2024. The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A large-scale lexical database of books read by children and young people in the United Kingdom. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 77:12 ► pp. 2418 ff.
Nag, Sonali, Sunila John & Aakash Agrawal
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Cheetham, Dominic
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Czarnecka, Mira
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2016. A Comparative Study on Word Lists Based on Adult and Children’s English Corpora. The Journal of Foreign Studies null:38 ► pp. 73 ff.
Hunt, Sally
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조보람 & 윤현숙
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MinDeokGi, 심규남 & Lee Seung Min
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