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Direct linkWebb, Stuart; Rodgers, Michael P. H. – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The scripts of 318 movies were analyzed in this study to determine the vocabulary size necessary to understand 95% and 98% of the words in movies. The movies consisted of 2,841,887 running words and had a total running time of 601 hours and 33 minutes. The movies were classified as either American or British, and then put into the following…
Descriptors: Scripts, Physical Activities, Nouns, Vocabulary
