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In:Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries
Mariusz Piotr Kamiński
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 22] 2021
► pp. 11–46

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Chapter 1
Pioneering research on vocabulary control

Published online: 21 April 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.22.c1
Article outline
  • 1.1Early interests in vocabulary control
  • 1.2The objective approach to vocabulary selection
    • 1.2.1Edward L. Thorndike
    • 1.2.2Ernest Horn
    • 1.2.3Lawrence Faucett and Itsu Maki
    • 1.2.4The strengths and limitations of statistical word-counts
  • 1.3The subjective approach
    • 1.3.1Harold Palmer
    • 1.3.2Michael West
      • 1.3.2.1West’s defining vocabulary
  • 1.4The logical approach
  • 1.5The General Service List: Confrontation of the competing approaches
    • 1.5.1The Carnegie Conferences
    • 1.5.2The General Service List
    • 1.5.3Criticism of the GSL
  • 1.6Summary
  • Notes
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