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| Title |
How Many Words Do We Know? Practical Estimates of Vocabulary Size Dependent on Word Definition, the Degree of Language Input and the Participant’s Age
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01116 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marc Brysbaert, Michaël Stevens, Paweł Mandera, Emmanuel Keuleers |
| Abstract |
Based on an analysis of the literature and a large scale crowdsourcing experiment, we estimate that an average 20-year-old native speaker of American English knows 42,000 lemmas and 4,200 non-transparent multiword expressions, derived from 11,100 word families. The numbers range from 27,000 lemmas for the lowest 5% to 52,000 for the highest 5%. Between the ages of 20 and 60, the average person learns 6,000 extra lemmas or about one new lemma every 2 days. The knowledge of the words can be as shallow as knowing that the word exists. In addition, people learn tens of thousands of inflected forms and proper nouns (names), which account for the substantially high numbers of 'words known' mentioned in other publications. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 76 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 11% |
| Japan | 7 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 4% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Iceland | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 38 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 61 | 80% |
| Scientists | 12 | 16% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 243 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 239 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 47 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 24 | 10% |
| Researcher | 22 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 8% |
| Other | 56 | 23% |
| Unknown | 53 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 57 | 23% |
| Linguistics | 48 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 9 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 32 | 13% |
| Unknown | 71 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 487. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2024.
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