[Corpora-List] Frequency Class / H äufigkeitsklasse

[Marc Brysbaert]

As far as I know, these are rarely used in psycholinguistics. The only
example I can think of are the word family lists compiled by Paul Nation for
second language acquisition
(http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/publications/paul-nation/Informa
tion-on-the-BNC_COCA-word-family-lists.pdf).

Dividing a continuum in classes is likely to decrease the power of the
variable. As an alternative we have recently proposed the Zipf scale of word
frequency, which is easy to understand and leads to a correct understanding
of the word frequency effect in psychological research. The scale simply is
log10(frequency per billion words). It gives values from 1 to 7 , with the
values 1-3 representing low-frequency words and 4-7 high frequency words.

More information can be found here: http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1352

I hope this is helpful?

Kind regards,

Marc Brysbaert

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Cedric Krummes
Sent: woensdag 6 november 2013 13:55
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Subject: [Corpora-List] Frequency Class / Häufigkeitsklasse

Dear colleagues,

Does anybody know a reason and/or application for frequency classes
(German: Häufigkeitsklassen)? I've read the Wikipedia entry and I know how
to calculate them but I'm unsure what to do with them. Could I do something
comparativey?

Best wishes,

Cédric Krummes
--
Dr. Cédric Krummes
"SMS Communication in Switzerland"

Universität Leipzig · +49-341-97-37404
http://www.cedrickrummes.org/contact/

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