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
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2947/
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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/
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