Date:  Wed, 6 Dec 1995 08:59:55 -0800

From:  Mary Bucholtz <bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU>

Subject: Re: Language and Intelligence



> >However, a historian may have a larger vocabulary than a linguist,

> >and both have larger vocabularies than a mathematician.



I'm not convinced this is true; in fact I'd be surprised if there were

any significant differences in vocabulary size by discipline. Has any

research been done on this?



Mary Bucholtz

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley