SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English

We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the British National Corpus and the SUBTLEX-US...

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Main Authors: van Heuven, Walter J.B., Mandera, Pawel, Keuleers, Emmanuel, Brysbaert, Marc
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2947/