Timeline for Linguistics term for word choice
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 2:58 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'd come across productive vocabulary before, but I don't like it because in linguistics productive normally has a different significance. Besides which, OP expected a single word. Anyway this NGram suggests active vocabulary is the more common term, which sounds good to me. | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 20:05 | comment | added | rumtscho | I have heard distinctions between "active vocabulary" (= the words a person would choose from) and "passive vocabulary" (= the words a person knows, but doesn't use). Looks like another name for the "productive vocabulary" listed here, but I don't know which is more correct. | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 18:53 | history | answered | GEdgar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |