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Singleton, Cleavonne – 1976
This study compared the vocabulary of the period from 1943 to 1945 to the vocabulary of 1975. In addition to a direct comparison of word use, an indirect comparison was made using Thorndike's word list in the "Teacher's Word Book" (1931). The 1975 vocabulary, based on frequency of word appearance, was derived from 93 speeches made by students in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Doctoral Dissertations
