frequency counts for consonant clusters in English

[Marc Joanisse]

Michèle,
Just to expand on what Brian said:  the transcriptions in CELEX are 
syllabified such that you can be sure that the clusters are not 
ambisyllabic: for instance, when calculating the frequency of [st] you 
would want to count "mist" but maybe not "mister." Also, I think CELEX 
is based on a larger corpus so it would probably include more words and 
would likely also give you more accurate token frequency estimates for 
each.

(Of course, I don't mean to imply there's anything wrong with using 
CHILDES corpora for this purpose!)

-Marc-

On May 20, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Brian MacWhinney wrote:

> Dear Michèle,
>      You could do this from CHILDES data, but, if I remember 
> correctly, CELEX has already done all of this for you.
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
> On May 20, 2004, at 6:40 AM, M.Pettinato at city.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> I am a Phd student working on the production and perception of 
>> consonant clusters in people with Down Syndrome.
>>
>> I need to find the frequency with which certain clusters appear in 
>> spoken English, for example word-initial 'pl', 'str' or word-final 
>> 'lp', 'fs' etc.
>>
>> Does anybody know if this data is readily available out there, or 
>> would I have to perform a frequency count myself?
>>
>> I have been advised to use CELEX for this, but I was wondering 
>> whether it would also be possible to use CHILDES & how one would go 
>> about doing this.
>>
>> Any ideas & comments welcome!
>>
>> Michèle Pettinato
>>
>
>
--
Marc Joanisse, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience
The University of Western Ontario
marcj at uwo.ca
http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/lrcn