title: The most frequently used words of spoken English.
abstract: In 1963 a method was published for the analysis of word frequencies in spontaneous (story-telling) spoken language. The immediate purpose was to provide a means for computer analysis of part-of-speech usage in a study of linguistically impaired aphasic patients. A dictionary of most frequently used words in response to a 20-card administration of the Thematic Apperception Test based on the verbal output of 12 subjects was compiled. The present paper is a revision of the dictionary based on 54 adults. An alphabetical listing of the words in the new directory with part-of-speech identification of each word is included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Surgery and Education, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wepman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lozar