The New General Service List - Spoken

NGSL-Spoken 1.2

In response to several requests for a list of high frequency spoken English words, the three spoken subsections of the NGSL corpus (see table below) were analyzed and in late 2013, Browne and Culligan published the NGSL-S (Browne & Culligan, 2013). The 1.0 version contained 822 words which provided 89% coverage for spoken English. In 2016, the 1.1 version of the list was published, with slightly better coverage (718 words to reach 90%). In October 2017 the 1.2 version of the NGSL was released. This list is 721 words and provides up to 90% coverage for unscripted spoken English

NGSL-S 1.2 Teaching, Learning & Content Development Tools:

  1. NGSL-S 1.2 on NGSL Profiler (text analysis, text simplification & AI text generation tools)

  2. NGSL-S 1.2 video concordance utilizing Youglish (soon!)

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