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Vocabulary Size of Czech Native Speakers: A Statistical Approach
| Autoři | |
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Článek ve sborníku |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | Electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2025): Intelligent lexicography. Proceedings of the eLex 2025 conference |
| Klíčová slova | vocabulary size; native speaker; manual annotation; semi-automatic dictionary drafting; Dictionary Express |
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| Popis | This paper explores the theory of measuring vocabulary size, including the various methods that can be used and the parameters that have to be set. We have examined the experiments carried out on English and Dutch. Goulden et al. (1990) claims the average native speaker knows about 17,000 English base words (non-derived words). Keuleers et al. (2015) and Brysbaert et al. (2016) claim the average native speaker with secondary education knows about 42,000 headwords (lemmas). We have conducted an experiment similar to that of Keuleers and Brysbaert on Czech, with the input of 100,000 letter sequences from the wordlists of large web corpora. We assume the vocabulary size of Czech native speakers (as well as the vocabulary size of native speakers of any language) could be bigger, exceeding 57,000 (Czech) headwords, should we provide the participants with more inputs (150,000 sequences, or even more) or should we count the specialized terminology of their fields of interest. |