Mark Pagel

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mark Pagel is involved.

Article

Calude, Andreea S. and Mark Pagel 2014 Frequency of use and basic vocabulary Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 45–72 | Article

We use corpora from 18 languages to study the frequency of basic words such as mother, sun, and red. We compare three lists, Swadesh-200, Swadesh-100, and the Leipzig-Jakarta list (Tadmor 2009), and find that they have a high average inter-correlation. Using the WOLD semantic categories and fields… read more