Five list types - for exploring what information different lists can provide. French or English.  ||A Natural   ||B Natural Freq   ||C Alpha   ||D   ||E Alpha Freq   ||F Freq Alpha   <<Check all   none    (TIP: If you just need to reformat a text as a vertical list, and/or delete numbering, click this setting.) Input Method A Rich analysis of smaller texts Type or paste small/medium text (<10000 words) below and click Submit_window

POLEMICAL CORNER What do Zipf's Laws of Lexical Distribution tell us about re-writing texts to increase recycling? Consult the data

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Options: [ Types Lemmas Families ]   [Repeated Phrases] [Line numbers] [Function words] [Count Singletons]    
INSTRUCTIONS: Type or paste your text here and click the SUBMIT_window button. For a demonstration, enter this text, or one of the sample texts below. TEXT SET-UP General: Include an empty space after every comma or full stop. Research: Deal with spelling errors and proper nouns. SIZE LIMITS: Web input is normally limited to about 50,000 characters - use UPLOAD method below for larger files to 1 million words (must be ~.txt; send in straight from your own hard drive). Text is NOT stored on Lextutor server

Samples: Isogram | Lit (1) (2) (1+2) | Graded Lit (1) (2) (1+2) | Speech (1) (2) | Rex M. | Green Eggs      

Concept from John Sinclair's discussion of different types of lists (Corpus Concordance Collocation, 1991, Ch. 2), coded T. Cobb, UQAM, Montreal