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Investigating Lexis beyond the Most Frequent Words--Part 2.
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Bird, Norman – 1994
Results of a Hong Kong survey, described in an earlier report, are summarized here. The study investigated the English vocabulary size of native-speaking adults (n=78), non-English native-speaking adults--Chinese (n=20), and non-English native Chinese-Speaking non-Chinese (n=9). The vocabulary used reflected British rather than American English…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dictionaries, Educational Background, English