vocabulary

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Core words - What are they?
Download well known core vocabulary lists:

25 words of Highest Frequency collected from 34 Toddlers by Banajee, DiCarlo & Stricklin These 25 words account for 96.3% of all words communicated by toddlers, although toddlers have a total vocabulary of around 1,100 to 2,000 words.

100 Words of Highest Frequency from an Interview with an AAC User. Provided by Prof Bruce Baker, Portland College, UK, March 2003

326 Words of Highest Frequency collected from six 3-4 years old speaking children in 3 classrooms. Language sample compiled by Marvin, Beukelman and Bilyeu. Wordlist provided by Prof Bruce Baker, Portland College, UK, March 2003.

Five Hundred Words Most Frequently Used in Children’s Writing

AAC Institute General Core Vocabulary The list includes all morphological forms of high frequency general use words, even though all forms are not used with high frequency.

Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary: 220 words, are used for approximately 70% of children’s reading and 60% of adult reading. (95 early reading nouns are included in the list)

Core vocabulary –Articles, websites and other vocabulary resources

Core Vocabulary and the AAC Performance Report - AAC Institute The AAC Institute General Core Vocabulary has been created based on a principled assessment of various vocabulary frequency studies

CORE VOCABULARY IS THE SAME ACROSS ENVIRONMENTS by Bruce Baker. In the past century, linguists and second language teachers have discovered that a core vocabulary of fewer than a thousand words can provide semantic coverage for nearly every idea expressible in a human language.

Defining Our Terms: Core Vocabulary by Robin Hurd When putting together an AAC system, people sometimes call whatever words they choose to put on the system the child’s “core vocabulary” even if those words are mainly personal names, specific toys, food choices, or pre-stored messages

How far will 100 Words Get You? Catee asks ‘How many words does it take to read Macbeth?’ He finds that by just learning 9 words a person could read 21% of Macbeth, and that it would be possible to read 80% of Macbeth by knowing only the 500 most common words.

Normal Language Development with AAC Applications by Gail van Tatenhove. This 11 page handout reviews normal language development, with an eye towards using normal language development to assist in the selection of CORE VOCABULARY for initial AAC systems which emphasize the development of normal, generative language.

Ogden's 'Basic English' and 'Encyclopedia America' pages.

'Vocabulary Features in AAC' from University of Washington, Seattle

1) Vocabulary Size
2) Accessibility of Vocabulary
3) Type of Possible Utterances
4) Pre-Selected Vocabulary Sets

Voice of America broadcasting station: Read more on VOA 'Special English ' page. View VOA Special English Vocabulary list on their 'Word Book' page.