Abstract
perpetuating. Johnson and Pearson (2) asserted that any basic word list intended for instructional use for beginning readers must meet two criteria. First, the list must be based on the language of children: the words should be part of children's listening and speaking vocabularies. Second, the words should occur frequently in printed materials. The second criterion is easy enough to meet. Kugera and Francis (3), Carroll, Davies, and Richman (4) and Harris and Jacobson (5) have produced welldocumented computer studies of massive quantities of written language. The studies have identified high-frequency words in printed materials. Comparable studies of high-frequency words in children's oral language have not appeared in the recent literature. Most of the studies of oral vo-
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