Vocabulary size

AlexanderS · Post by **AlexanderS** » 29 Dec 2001 19:55

Hi!

How to measure the size of vocabulary, say, English vocabulary? Does anybody have any related links?

Thank you.
Alexander.

Kisena · Post by **Kisena** » 29 Dec 2001 20:12

We would assume counting all words used might be helpful.

thinker · Post by **thinker** » 30 Dec 2001 04:44

Возьмите любой небольшой англо-русский словарь. Например в нем всего 10 тысяч слов. Посмотрите на любую букву и определите, сколько слов вам незнакомо примерно. Например, вам незнакомо каждое третье слово (33%). Значит ваш словарный запас грубо 6.6 тысячи слов. [img:793daa3abb]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img:793daa3abb]

Okie · Post by **Okie** » 30 Dec 2001 07:21

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Kisena:
<strong>We would assume counting all words used might be helpful.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I would call it naive approach [img:2340796d2f]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img:2340796d2f]