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1533
First Amerindian word enters English
1852
Peter Roget's 'Thesaurus' published
1927
IRET starts on controlled vocabulary list
1932
Palmer's '600-word Vocabulary for Story Telling' published
1932
Thorndike's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 20,000 Words' published
1934
Carnegie Conference held in New York
1938
Lorge's 'Semantic Count of English Words' published
1944
Thorndike and Lorge's 'The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words' published
1947
Hornby's article 'Linguistic pedagogy IV'
1948
Orton & Dieth's survey of English dialects
1949
Lorge's 'A Semantic Count of the 570 Commonest Words' published
1949
Zipf's "Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort"
1950
GSL to be used as basis of Lower Cert
1953
'General Service List' published
1957
Osgood et al's 'The Measurement of Meaning'
1960
West's 'Minimum Adequate Vocabulary'
1962
Orton et al's 'Survey of English Dialects'
1965
"A Vocabulary and Reading test for Students of English as a Second Language"
1967
Kucera and Francis' 'Computational Analysis of Present Day American English '
1986
Cruse's 'Lexical Semantics'
1987
Sinclair's 'Collocation: a progress report'
1990
Nation's 'Teaching and learning vocabulary'
1999
Singleton's ' Exploring the second language mental lexicon'
2000
Schmitt's ' Vocabulary in language teaching'
2000
Read's ' Assessing vocabulary'
2001
Nation's 'Learning vocabulary in another language'