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Applied Linguistics Advance Access originally published online on July 21, 2008
Applied Linguistics 2008 29(3):509-514; doi:10.1093/applin/amn026
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© Oxford University Press 2008

Word Frequency Estimates Revisited—A Response to Alderson (2007)

Iain McGee

Taibah University, Saudi Arabia


  Abstract

Alderson's (2007) paper investigated whether subjective frequency counts for words might be a reliable substitute for corpus data. Alderson is critical of previous research which has found high correlations between corpus data and subjective estimates, and he argues that his own research, ‘has failed to show that frequency judgements can substitute for objective word frequency counts derived from corpora’ (p. 407). In what follows, I question whether Alderson has really established his case, and also refer to some previously published research which has attempted to unravel the ‘mystery’ of intuitions in this area.


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