Table 3 Word-length and word-frequency occurrences in the materials.
From: Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading
Word information | Number of word tokens in the materials | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Word numbers | Overall | Single sentences | Passages | |
10,117 | 5,150 | 4,967 | ||
Word length | 1 | 4,683 (46.3%)1 | 2,379 (46.2%) | 2,304 (46.4%) |
2 | 5,102 (50.4%) | 2,658 (51.6%) | 2,444 (49.2%) | |
3 | 312 (3.1%) | 108 (2.1%) | 204 (4.1%) | |
4 | 20 (0.2%) | 5 (0.1%) | 15 (0.3%) | |
Frequency2 | Low | 4,392 (43.4%) | 2,271 (44.1%) | 2,121 (42.7%) |
Medium | 2,269 (22.4%) | 1,097 (21.3%) | 1,172 (23.6%) | |
High | 3,456 (34.2%) | 1,782 (34.6%) | 1,674 (33.7%) | |
