In the Mayor of Casterbridge experiment reported in Chapter 4, frequently repeated words were acquired by more of the learners than words that occurred in the text less often. ... For instance, in all 21,000 words of the simplified version of The Mayor of Casterbridge, we were able to identify only eight items that were both unusual enough to be unknown to the learners (i.e. not among the 2000 most frequent English words) and used in the text at least seven times. ...

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