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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| author | van Heuven, Walter J.B. Mandera, Pawel Keuleers, Emmanuel Brysbaert, Marc |
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| description | 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 frequencies. In addition to the word form frequencies, we also present measures of contextual
diversity part-of-speech specific word frequencies, word frequencies in children programmes,
and word bigram frequencies, giving researchers of British English access to the full range of norms
recently made available for other languages. Finally, we introduce a new measure of word frequency,
the Zipf scale, which we hope will stop the current misunderstandings of the word frequency effect. |
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| spelling | nottingham-29472020-05-04T16:41:52Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2947/ SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English van Heuven, Walter J.B. Mandera, Pawel Keuleers, Emmanuel Brysbaert, Marc 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 frequencies. In addition to the word form frequencies, we also present measures of contextual diversity part-of-speech specific word frequencies, word frequencies in children programmes, and word bigram frequencies, giving researchers of British English access to the full range of norms recently made available for other languages. Finally, we introduce a new measure of word frequency, the Zipf scale, which we hope will stop the current misunderstandings of the word frequency effect. Taylor & Francis 2014-01-13 Article PeerReviewed van Heuven, Walter J.B., Mandera, Pawel, Keuleers, Emmanuel and Brysbaert, Marc (2014) SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . pp. 1-15. ISSN 1747-0218 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2013.850521 doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.850521 doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.850521 |
| spellingShingle | van Heuven, Walter J.B. Mandera, Pawel Keuleers, Emmanuel Brysbaert, Marc SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English |
| title | SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for
British English |
| title_full | SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for
British English |
| title_fullStr | SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for
British English |
| title_full_unstemmed | SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for
British English |
| title_short | SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for
British English |
| title_sort | subtlex-uk: a new and improved word frequency database for
british english |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2947/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2947/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2947/ |