Core vocabulary
Core vocabulary ( core vocabulary, vocabulaire central or essentiel ) is an originally beheimateter in frequency research terminus of didactic lexicography.
Neighboring terms are basic vocabulary , advanced vocabulary, etc. a. m.
These are lexical minima, which are drawn from the central parts of the lexical slide register by measuring frequency (frequency), dispersion (distribution) and availability (availability). The drawing includes, if possible, all linguistic registers and relevant diatopic, diastatic and diaphasic varieties, namely the oral (spoken language) as well as the written (written language).
The corpus construction of computational linguistics has put frequency research on a new basis through the enormous expansion of recordable and processable data volumes and given the statements new and high reliability: "In order to have an accurate listing of the top 5,000 words in Spanish, the first step is to create a robust and representative corpus of Spanish. In terms of robustness, our 20,000,000 word corpus is twenty times larger than that of ... "(Davies 2006, 2) and further:" ... this corpus is the first to have a good balance of texts from both Latin America and Spain "(ibid. 3).
While the basic vocabulary lists created in the German-speaking area mostly stay below a frequency range of 2000 and use a so-called advanced vocabulary of around 2500 entries (cf.Nickolaus 1967, 11), the term core vocabulary aims at a rank of 5000 (Matoré 1963, préface) .
Disadvantages of the purely computer-based selection of didactic word corpora can be seen in the fact that they do not take into account specific situations that play a role in the reality of the lessons to be conducted in the target language or in the classroom discussion: words such as sp. pizarra 'blackboard', tiza 'chalk' etc. are not listed in the Frequency Dictionary Spanish (Davies 2006). In order to compensate for this deficiency, the core vocabulary of Romance multilingualism (cf.Meißner 2015) constructs its corpus from the classic basic vocabulary lists of the target languages French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish as well as from the corresponding Frequency Dictionaries of the Routledge publishing house, which are methodically based on process the criteria shown by Davies.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Davies: A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish. Core Vocabulary for Learners . Routledge, New York, London 2006.
- ^ Günter Nickolaus: Basic and advanced vocabulary French . 1st edition. Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1967.
- ↑ Georges Matoré et al .: Dictionnaire du vocabulaire essentiel (les mots 5000 fondamentaux) . Larousse, Paris 1963.
- ^ Franz-Joseph Meißner: The core vocabulary of Romance multilingualism (KRM). Didactic, lexicological, lexicographical considerations on the creation, presentation, use of an electronic multilingual word list and learning apps on Romance multilingualism. 2016, accessed December 23, 2016 .