Establishing verb frequency

[Casillas Navarro, Gabriela]

Dear all
I'm working on the acquisition of verb morphology in L2-English, and I
am in the process of designing a task aimed at testing knowledge of
regular/irregular past tense forms and amongst several variables I am
interested in controlling for verb frequency. I have surveyed a number
of psycholinguistic studies and most of them seem to be doing slightly
different things with regards to operationalizing verb frequency (e.g.
different studies take into consideration stem /lemma vs. word form
frequency). I plan on using the British National Corpus to establish
frequencies since this corpus is available in my institution.


Any suggestions/references/practical hints are greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance

Gabriela Casillas

gcasil at essex.ac.uk